The Ultimate Indonesia Travel Guide
Sukarno even so, foresaw the new city as the possible new national capital in the future. The vast available location and its geographic location in the centre of the archipelago was the city’s principal benefit. In the late 1950s to the first half of the 1960s, he filled Jakarta with monuments and statues. Numbers of monumental projects had been conceived, planned, and initiated throughout his administration, which includes Monumen Nasional, Istiqlal mosque, DPR/MPR Developing, and Gelora Bung Karno stadium. Sukarno…