Tanjung Priok
You can find some wonderful things in the most unlikely places. In this particular case, a walk - in fact a very long bike ride - get into one of dodgiest districts Jakarta, Tanjung Priok, a rough and ready port area, to visit the very few expats. I'd only ever been here a few times, to distant places to catch Pelni ships in the archipelago, and it was during my first trip to Priok about 20 years ago that someone slashed my backpack open from behind, but fortunately for me failed to steal something of value - probably issued by the stench of unwashed scare t-shirts! Also something of value - which was not much -. Sure held in my money belt was strapped tightly around my waist
came not far from the huge port, which was founded by the Dutch after the traditional Sunda Kelapa harbor to its limits, are a collection of colorful bars and dangdut joints. Parched shipwrecked on a remote Indonesian island, I felt like for a much needed Guinness in pop, but called charming Mona Lisa was not yet open to custom, unfortunately.
"Later" to the security guys told me. But if Priok is rough during the day, I can not imagine what the bar would be like at night to me. Well, actually I can. Just Google "Chacha Romeo", a 58-year-old dangdut singer who likes to get it on with support six female singers and you will get an idea.
In addition to the area seedy bars, drunken sailors and multitudes of street hoodlums is Tanjung Priok also known for its excesses. It was back in the dark days of the Suharto era, stooge the bloody riots on September 12, 1984 after Suharto began Muslims enraged by a mosque enters without critical to remove in an attempt to take off his shoes some pamphlets and banners to the Government , During the riots, nine members of a Chinese Muslim family headed by Tan Liem Kioe died in her pharmacy, which was burned to the ground while scores and possibly hundreds of rioters were shot.
Mona Lisa
Most recently in April 2010, demonstrators on the rampage was in response to government plans to demolish illegal buildings, including doors to a sacred grave condition, the had apparently not allowed. Three public safety agencies (Satpol PP) were beaten to death and hundreds of protesters and security officers were injured.
So what's the wonderful thing that I mentioned at the beginning of this article? Now, in the heart of Priok is the magnificent station Tanjung Priok, built by the Dutch back in 1914 and is one of the oldest stations in Indonesia, which is a heritage building that is designated by the city government.
This is the station that would allows travelers who arrived by boat to the nearby port to continue their journey by train, so that they, to distant places such as Malang and Surabaya in East Java the company at this time, a trip would result by Java dense jungle, then so full of tigers that have been described by the villagers as "the plague". How times change!
The inside of the sheer size of the station building is impressive and it has what must be one of the largest roofs on every building throughout Indonesia. Unfortunately for me, but an overzealous little man in a uniform that looked about six sizes too small for him against me photos in the station take. I would have to have a permit, he said, from another historic station received Stasiun Kota called - about seven or eight kilometers away. What he really meant, of course, was that he was for a sheet - and there was no way he would get from me
as heritage buildings, despite its name, is the state of the station! a bit of a concern honestly and many of the doors and windows are boarded up. If this remarkable building from a bygone era rot only in Jakarta's historic Dutch Quarter Kota how many of the old buildings left? Well, maybe not. His fate, as recently touched by the Director General of Transport could be to either be converted into apartments or a luxury shopping mall. And you know what? That surprises me not at all
Country: Indonesia
Province: DKI Jakarta
Directions: (Or by boat from other Indonesian ports!)
What do train or car: the historic station lake and dodgiest bars some of Indonesia's visits
What to bring: as little as possible, but a lot of common sense
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