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On 24 June 2023, Batavia PIK celebrated its 496th anniversary of Jakarta and its Grand Opening with grand cultural production.

Jakarta, formerly (until 1949) Batavia or (1949–72) Djakarta, largest city and capital of Indonesia. Jakarta lies on the northwest coast of Java at the mouth of the Ciliwung (Liwung River), on Jakarta Bay (an embayment of the Java Sea). It is coextensive with the metropolitan district of Greater Jakarta (Jakarta Raya) and nearly coextensive with the daerah khusus ibukota (special capital district) of Jakarta—the latter also including a number of small offshore islands in the Java Sea. In 1966, when the city was declared a special capital district, it gained a status approximately equivale...

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Introduction to Jakarta Initially giving the first impression of being one of Asia’s most chaotic cities, Jakarta tends to turn off most visitors, many of whom who were on their way to somewhere else in this vast country.  While this busy metropolis of almost 10 million people can be intimidating at times, those patient enough to give the place a fair chance will find a cultural blend of every ethnicity and cultural group present in Indonesia.  There are many fascinating relics of this countries’ complicated past in this city, having been conquered and brutally repressed by the Dutch an...