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Catholic Cathedral
The Catholic Cathedral has twin spires and was built in 1901 to replace an earlier church.
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Chicken Market Bridge
At the northern end of Kali Besar is the last remaining Dutch drawbridge, the Chicken Market Bridge, which dates from the 17th century.
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Emanuel Church
Just west of Gedung Pancasila along Jl Pejambon is the Emanuel Church, another classic building dating from 1893.
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Gedung Pancasila
To the southwest of Lapangan Banteng is Gedung Pancasila, southeast of Lapangan Banteng, which is an imposing neoclassical building built in 1830 as the Dutch army commander's residence. It later became the meeting hall of the Volksraad (People's Council), but is best known as the place where Soekarno made his famous Pancasila speech in 1945, laying the foundation for Indonesia's constitution.
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Gereja Sion
Near the Kota train station, the Gereja Sion dates from 1695 and is the oldest remaining church in Jakarta. Also known as Gereja Portugis (Portuguese Church), it was built just outside the old city walls for the so-called 'black Portuguese' - the Eurasians and natives captured from Portuguese trading ports in India and Malaya and brought to Batavia as slaves.
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Kali Besar
A block west of Taman Fatahillah square is Kali Besar, the great canal along Sungai Ciliwung. This was once a high-class residential area and on the west bank of the river are the last of the homes that date from the early 18th century.
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Lapangan Banteng
Lapangan Banteng was laid out by the Dutch in the 19th century, and the area has some of Jakarta's best colonial architecture. The 1901 cathedral and one of the largest mosques in southeast Asia, the Istiqlal Mesjid, can both be found here.
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Mahkamah Agung
To the east of Lapangan Banteng is the Mahkamah Agung, built in 1848.
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Mesjid Istiqlal
Facing the Catholic Cathedral is Jakarta's principal place of Muslim worship, the modernistic Mesjid Istiqlal, which was constructed under Soekarno and is reputedly the largest mosque in Southeast Asia.
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Ministry of Finance Building
Next door to the Supreme Court is the Ministry of Finance Building, formerly the Witte Huis (White House). This grand government complex was built by Daendels in 1809 as the administrative centre for the Dutch government.
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Monas
Ingloriously dubbed 'Soekarno's final erection', this 132m-high Monas, towering over Merdeka Sq, is both Jakarta's principal landmark and the most famous architectural extravagance of the former dictator. Begun in 1961, this typically masculine column was not completed until 1975, when it was officially opened by Soeharto.
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Taman Fatahillah
The old town of Batavia, now known as Kota, was once the hub of Dutch colonial Indonesia. Much of the one-time grandeur has now rotted, crumbled or been bulldozed away, but Taman Fatahillah, Kota's central cobblestone square, is still reminiscent of the area's heyday.
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Watchtower
Just before the entrance to the Museum Bahari is the old watchtower. It was built in 1839 to sight and direct traffic to the port. There are good views over the harbour, but opening hours are haphazard - ask for the caretaker if it is closed.
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