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Not only in Menteng Raya, another street lies
within the area will offer you the same feel,
too. Such streets like Prof.Moh Yamin street,
for example, gives the same atmosphere of
green, cool and colonial- look from its old
Access to Menteng buildings.

One of the old buildings is Gedong Joeang
45, which previously was Schomper Hotel.
This building, located in Menteng Raya street
How to get there? number 31, is pretty near by Cut Meutia
By KRL mosque, and can be reached by walking.
Nearest stations:
Sudirman station Not far from the mosque is a former art
Gondangdia station center building which was later used as
BNI City station immigration office in the 1950s. The building
is known with the name Kunstring,which was
Transjakarta: built 104 years ago and located in Teuku
Nearest bus stop: Umar street number 1. It became a pioneer
Taman Menteng traffic light in building development using reinforced
Kartini
KPU concrete technique. By seeing it firsthand, it
Yayasan Kanker Indonesia feels like being travelled to the past with a
Menara BCA time machine, since you can see the unique
design: a building flanked with two towers.
By MRT :
Bundaran HI Founder of Komunitas Jelajah Budaya
(community regularly tours sites of interest
in the city), Kartum Setiawan explained the
development of Menteng as new residential
center during colonial era was because the
center of government has been moved out
from oud Batavia (Kota Tua) to weltevreden
(Sawah Besar). Therefore, they need to build
Infografis/Tommy K.R residential place for the Europeans who
works in the area. Besides, they must build
new residential place since the old residential
area located in Kota Tua was no longer safe,
due to many epidemic disease in that area.

Residential development with city park
concept became a good plan, seeing many

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