Today I visited the Taman Prasasti Museum. It is a small open air museum/cemetery a few blocks from the National Museum. It was a cemetery built by the Dutch in 1795. It costs 5000 Rp to enter and whatever you tip the excellent English speaking guide who takes you around the site and explains the history behind the various monuments and the people and history behind them. There was one other couple wandering round taking selfies but otherwise I had the place to myself.
Mostly the graves have been moved and the contents removed when the cemetery was closed and downsized.
There are headstones for Olivia Mariamne Raffles who was the wife of Thomas Stamford Raffles, many early Governors, Soldiers , Doctors ,Architects and Merchants from the colonist past of Jakarta. There is also a few Christian Indonesians such as the activist Soe Hok Gie. There is also the casket used by Sukarno.
Definitely worth a trip if you like wandering around old graves and learning some history.
Mostly the graves have been moved and the contents removed when the cemetery was closed and downsized.
There are headstones for Olivia Mariamne Raffles who was the wife of Thomas Stamford Raffles, many early Governors, Soldiers , Doctors ,Architects and Merchants from the colonist past of Jakarta. There is also a few Christian Indonesians such as the activist Soe Hok Gie. There is also the casket used by Sukarno.
Definitely worth a trip if you like wandering around old graves and learning some history.
A recreation of a monument erected on the demolished house of Pieter Erberveld who was a Eurasian accused of plotting a Javanese rebellion in 1722. He was tortured then drawn and quartered and the site of his house turned into the public warning against rebellion. Ah the Dutch. It was demolished by the Japanese in 1942 but recreated here.
More than enough weeping angels to keep a Dr. Who fan on his toes.
I like the way the date is written here.
Japanese War Memorial
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