One
of spectacular Jakarta's recreation and educational
place is Taman Mini Indonesia Indah. The area covers
120 hectares in east Jakarta municipality. The concept
of Mini Indonesia Indah is collecting and communicating
the diversity of treasures of Indonesia. During the
construction of this park Indonesia was still consisting
of 27 provinces, so it was supposed to represent at
least 27 highlight of Indonesian culture, more detail,
each province would have it's typical traditional architecture,
nature, arts and other specific life. Beside cultural
aspects, the Mini Indonesia Indah also present natural
treasures of Indonesia such as bird park, orchid garden,
flower garden, Keong Mas theatre insect park and
others. In cultural aspect various museums are constructed
in Mini Indonesia Indah to exhibit the specific arts
such as Indonesia museum, sport museum, relic museum,
Asmat tribe museum, army museum, stamp museum, Komodo
museum transportation museum, telecommunication museum,
information museum, technology museum, Islamic museum(
Istiqlal museum ) and the monument of Non Alignment
Friendship.
Recreation facilities are also various such as sky lift,
monorail cart, children playground, Indonesia children
palace, and Goose pool, and the theatre of Imax Keong
Mas with gigantic screen player. At not regular schedule
a drama of traditional Indonesia and an opera at Tanah
Airku Theatre with spectacular creation and stage decoration.
The most interesting sight at Mini Indonesia Indah is
the traditional pavilions of each ethnic or specific
area of Indonesia. The pavilion is the representative
of ethnic art in architecture. So they are not representing
province. The pictures below are the pavilion that shows
the rich architectural elements in Indonesia. |