MONAS - Monumen Nasional have become icon of Jakarta City, Indonesia

MONAS is the name of Monumen Nasional (National Monument).  Monas was located in the centre of the Jakarta City, Indonesia. Every day the holiday, Monas was always visited by many tourists. Here you could enjoy many tour kinds and the educational material. Tourists could climb onto the monument that soared as far as the Monas peak. And you could play sport with the friend and the family. Tourists could also enjoy the garden that was beautiful with various bushy and beautiful trees. Or tourists could enjoy water entertainment that was interesting.

Monas was built be as high as 132 meters and have the shape of lingga yoni. All this building was covered by marble. In the peak part was gotten the cup that above was gotten the flame from bronze that the height 17 meters and the diameter 6 meters seriously 14,5 ton. This flame was covered gold weighing 45 kg. The Monas flame consisted of 77 parts that were united. 

The Monas history. Monas began to be built in August 1959. The Monas building whole was drafted by the Indonesian architects that are Soedarsono, Frederich Silaban and Ir. Rooseno. On August 17 1961, Monas was declared by President Soekarno, and began to be opened for the public since July 12 1975. Whereas the territory of the city arboretum around Monas beforehand was known by the name of the Gambir Field. Afterwards could change the name several times became the Ikada Field, Merdeka Field, Monas Field and afterwards became the Monas Garden.

Monas was built be as high as 132 meters and have the shape of lingga yoni. All this building was covered by marble. In the peak part was gotten the cup that above was gotten the flame from bronze that the height 17 meters and the diameter 6 meters seriously 14,5 ton. This flame was covered gold weighing 45 kg. The Monas flame consisted of 77 parts that were united.

The yard of the peak of the width 11x11 m. To reach the yard of the peak, the visitor could use the lift for a long time the trip around 3 minutes. Round the lift was gotten the ladder of the emergency. From the yard of the Monas peak, the visitor could see skyscraper buildings in the Jakarta City. Moreover if clear air, the visitor could see the Salak Mountain in West Java and Javanese Sea with the Thousand Islands. The low yard of the width 45x45 m. High from the Monas foundation to the low yard that is 17 meters. In this part the visitor could see the Monas Garden that was the beautiful city forest.

At the bottom of Monas was gotten a room that is the Nasional Museum. The height is 8 meters. This museum put forward the history of the struggle for the Indonesian Nation. The area from this museum was 80x80 m. To the four sides of the museum was gotten by 12 dioramas (the window of the show) that put forward the Indonesian history from the time of the ancestors of the Indonesian Nation of kingdoms to G30S PKI.

Tourists could also eliminate your bored feeling by enjoying the Monas Garden, that is a city forest that was drafted with the beautiful garden. In this garden tourists could play together the herd of deliberate deer was brought in from the Bogor Palace to enliven this garden. Moreover tourists could also play sport in this garden with the friend and the family. The Monas garden was also supplemented with the water reservoir danced. The performance of water danced this was very interesting to be watched tonight. Water will move with beautiful in accordance with the song wave that was played. Moreover was also showed the colored laser to this dancing water.

For tourists who wanted to maintain the health, apart from playing sport in the Monas Garden, tourists then could do the reflection massage for free. In this garden was provided the stones that was sharp enough for tourists step on while reflection massage. In this garden also was provided by several fields’ football and basketball that could be used by anyone. If tired tourists walked in the garden measuring 80 hectare this, tourists could use the tour carriage. This garden was free was visited by anyone and was open free for the public.

To be able to enter the Monas building, tourists could go through the entrance in and around the statue of Prince Diponegoro. Then tourists will go through the underground path to enter Monas. You could then go through the entrance in the Monas yard the northern part. The opened hour of Monas was at 9.00 the morning till 16.00 in the afternoon.

To visit Monas, there were many transport kinds that could be used by you. If the user's tourists of the train, you could use KRL Jabodetabek the kind express that stopped in the Gambir station. You could then use transport facilities of the bus of Trans Jakarta. If tourists used the personal vehicle, was available the special IRTI parking lot, or tourists could park the vehicle in the Gambir station.

Monas could become one of the choices of tourists to go on a trip with the family and the educational place of children to more knew the Indonesian history. Tourists could then enjoy fresh air from shady trees in Monas. And don't forget to maintain the cleanliness of the Monas Garden in order to stay beautiful to be enjoyed by everyone.

If you come to visit Jakarta a time to visit Taman Monument Monas. Here you can learn the history of Indonesia and see the sights of the city Jakarta.  

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