CORE Bapang Betawi house was very quiet with the roof of the front of the lower house and decorated with carvings Dental Balang. Behind the wooden fence surrounding the patio that there are four wooden chairs surrounding a round table on the right and the same settings on the other side.
Houses are commonly encountered in traditional Betawi village is located on the eighth floor of a towering building in the Kuningan area, South Jakarta. This is not a real house, but a room in the Office of the Regional Public Library (Perpumda) DKI Jakarta at Gedung Nyi Ageng Serang.
Typical Jakarta of Jakarta Special Collections Room is not just the interior design but also its contents. As the name implies, the room is completed around 2001 is a collection of city-themed library and Betawi culture. Yes, this library does give special attention to the print and audiovisual collections to the charge and local tematema. Collection space intentionally made with indigenous Betawi-style house to be more condensed with Jakarta's atmosphere and can attract the attention of visitors.
According Perpumda records, there are 570 titles in total amounted to 1980 copies in the space area of the volleyball court. Number of copies were indeed far beyond the number of titles because there is a title that consists of more than one copy and some even up to 25 copies.
Of all the collections room, practically works of Adolf Heuken SJ. The most meet bookshelves. In addition to discussions about the history of the colonial era city, Heuken also reviews the history of mosques, churches and old pagoda and the development of Menteng.The Library has several book series of historical Jakarta Heuken a bit difficult to find despite the publication of a new five years ago. One of the unique collection of this series are book sources Asli Jakarta History 1513 - 1619 which contains an old manuscript about Jakarta in Sunda and Java script, as well as Portuguese and Dutch language accompanied by a translation.Apart from the colonial era history books, many books of Jakarta in the modern era such as memoirs of life in Jakarta alone who traveled roads lovers from Canada, Jeremy Allan, in his book of Jakarta Jive, A Story of Survival in a City of Upheaval. Side of the metropolis of Jakarta can also be found in some book of photos and jokes crunchy Jakarta Benny and Mice in the air of a caricature book of Jakarta.Not just a book 'serious' meeting room. Various fiction books from local and foreign authors also complement this room collection call it the work of the Word Muncato, Alwi Shahab, Ridwan Saidi, Remy Silado, Agnes Jessica.Like the city that since the old times frequented strangers, foreign novelist's work also enliven this special room. There is a story of a nuclear reactor on the north coast of Jakarta works of authors from Australia, Kerry B. Collison, in Jakarta novels, and stories about corruption and violence set in Jakarta, which was written in Jakarta Shadows Alan Brayne.Beyond the issue of private collections, the collection is an issue remaining from the Jakarta Government and local regulations set up to Djakarta book Through The Ages by design fee that is too modern for a book published in 1969.Although the status of local government-run libraries, collections managers is fair enough because this is not merely a special room contains a nice and sweet about Jakarta. They also include Jakarta Undercover series of Moammar Emka that talked about blurred portrait nightlife capital.In one of the shelves can also be found exposure Subhan SD urban crime problem in the book Danger Zone; Road, crossroad, & Prone Areas in Jakarta who issued the idea Media. Review and critique of policies to get rid of Jakarta pedicab controversial in the book Abang Pedicab, cruel, cruel Cruel Stepmom Still More Capital, written Yoshifumi Azuma also be found here.Besides books, there are also collections of music and movies Betawi typical wedding traditions and some seasoned actors land film from Betawi, Benjamin S.
