This post's title may sound weird. Who wants to hold picnic amongst tombstones? Well, I will ... if it is hold in Museum Taman Prasasti.
Located at the heart of Jakarta, Museum Taman Prasasti offers its visitors with unique experience. Visitors will not be seeing diorama or charts of Indonesian history. Instead, visitors are presented with tombstones!
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| Entrance of the Museum Taman Prasasti |
This 1.3 acre museum was actually a cemetery for noble Dutchmen when Dutch occupied Indonesia. After Indonesia's independence, the Jakarta administration turned it into a museum in 1977. Since then, it has become one of rare green areas in the city.
Don't worry if you will wake the death. All deceased bodies were procured by their families during the museum's construction. Some were also relocated to other cemeteries.
It is very easy to get to the Museum Taman Prasasti, by either using Transjakarta buses or public minivans.
If you decide to go with the former, check your Transjakarta map route and stop at the Monumen Nasional busway shelter. From the shelter, you can take motorcycle taxi (ojek) or just walk for about 15 minutes. Make sure you ask for directions from locals or Transjakarta officers. Ask them the directions to 'Museum Taman Prasasti' or just ask them the route to 'Kantor Walikota Jakarta Pusat'. The museum is just around the complex of Kantor Walikota Jakarta Pusat.
You can also reach there using public minivan M08, plying Kota - Tanah Abang. If you come from Kota, you can stop directly in front of the museum's entrance. When you come from Tanah Abang, you can stop near the Central Jakarta governmental compound. Then, you can walk for about 2 minutes heading to the entrance.
Entering the museum, big trees are ready to welcome you. They make you forget that you are living in Jakarta! Then, get to the main part, the tombstones.
The museum contains dozens of selected tombstones from 17th-20th century in various shapes, like angels. You can find notable names like the wife of Raffles there. You can also find the tombstone of Soe Hok Gie, a leading Indonesian activist in his era.
So, enough with the words. Enjoy these pictures I took.
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| Interesting tombstone, isn't it? |
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| The former tombstone of Thomas Stamford Raffle's wife. |
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| Sad figures |
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| Angelic figures, among many other angels |
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| Too bad, she lost her hand |
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| The most unique figure. One of her kinds. |
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| Gorgeous statue |
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| Tombstone of Gie |
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| Green museum ... |
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| Earth goddes? maybe |
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| Serene place |
So? What do you think? Creepy? Not at all ... in fact, I love it being there
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