Glodok is an urban village of Taman Sari, West Jakarta, Indonesia. The area is also known as Pecinan or Chinatown since the Dutch colonial era, and is considered the biggest in Indonesia. Majority of the traders and residents of Glodok are Chinese descent. The area dates back to colonial times when in November 1740, the Dutch East Indies Company designated Glodok as a residential area for ethnic Chinese. Administratively, the area is a kelurahan under the Taman Sari district, West Jakarta.
Glodok Pancoran paifang gate
Glodok in 1953.
Old Chinese style houses in Glodok
Kim Tek Ie Temple, established in 1650
Taman Sari is a district of West Jakarta, Indonesia. It is the smallest subdistrict of West Jakarta (4.37 km2). It is bounded by Central Jakarta to the south and to the east, and by Pademangan in North Jakarta to the north.
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Colonial building on the east side of Kali Besar Canal.
Fatahillah Museum, the former city hall of Batavia, in Jakarta Old Town.