Tugu means memorial and the memorial is an appropriate name for this old suburb in North East Jakarta by the port for this may well be the longest inhabited community in Jakarta. Shards of pots and pans, the sort of thing that gets excited archaeologists digging the pants off many visitors to the museum, were found in this area dating back several hundred years.
Tugu Prastasi dates back to the 5th century and at that time was located much closer to the shore. It is a rock with an inscription on using a type of Sanskrit language called Wenggi and has since been moved to the National Museum while its original location is now best known as Jalan Dua Pengangaan in modern times Kelapa Gading and is indistinguishable from the other concrete dross which Jakarta today. He talks about the digging of a canal 11 kilometers in three weeks during the Kingship of Purnawarman by priestly Brahmins, the payment is in the form of 1,000 cows. Not quite like Shaz Gez Arsenal or rules issues in graffiti but I, AOM sure when receiving all beef must have meant something.
things have happened here over 1100 years, but no one saw the need to keep all notes so when we know that near Sunda Kelapa became a major commercial warehouse for the Spice Islands, person did hear of that particular area. But in 1661, there were all kinds of milling around the eastern ocean, the changing landscape, killing people, get arrested, and generally being a nuisance. One of these groups were slaves. Often the offspring of marriages between Portuguese settlers and local people (when I say we, Local Aore covering an area of Goa east here) who were frequently frowned down by everyone really. The Dutch didn, AOT like them, the orders after taking Melaka and use them as slaves. Some found their way down to Java and a group of 21 families who had originally hailed from Bengal and the Coromandel coast of India have received their freedom on converting to Calvinism. Oh, and they were given land as well, said the land being Tugu.
In the northeast of Jakarta, principal spread AOS over Tanjung Priok past, but in Tugu projection distance rock lies what was once the scene of the biggest naval action east up in World war II. A British armada of some 100 ships carrying 12,000 men set anchor at the mouth of the Cilincing at 14 hours Sunday, August 4, 1811, their mission to invade and conquer the island of Java, be governed by the Dutch with some French entries.
Java and is of course always the verge of a major trading nation of the pivot sea and you imagine 100 foreign vessels before turning in your garden have excited some comment or reaction. Instead the invading armies, divided roughly between Indian and European forces landed in front of stunned local fishermen who probably decided that Sunday can be a good day to rest. Struggling against the tide otherwise the worst forces experienced were pre invasion meals be regurgitated into the bay.
Cilincing itself appears as a couple of islands between a river and a canal. The Dutch had thoughtfully left the bridge over the canal up and do their best not to hinder the invasion too. head quarters was set up just south of the river in a house built in the 1700s by a Dutch owner leading Vinck named Julius who also made his mark in neighboring Tugu. It was here the commander of the force, and possibly Auchtemy Raffles, the man chosen to lead a new Java spent their first night in Java. Around them were rice fields and clumps of trees with isolated kampungs by the sides of the countless streams while being so far from Batavia solid walls provided protection against people who weren, AOT delighted by their owner.
After the blank under the stars, the next day was wagons roll. Tugu has been reached, the church, it is marked on contemporary maps as Suyrannah all along the north coast they were passing through Tanjung Priok and on Tuesday they had reached Ancol. If they had waited 180 years, they would have the toll road, got stuck in traffic and was never in Jakarta!
Some of the invading forces, although at least some European officers who died are buried or remembered in the grounds of All Saints Church, which is near the Gambir Train Station.
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