Tanjung Priok

Aerial view of the Port of Tanjung Priok

Tanjung Priok is a subdistrict of North Jakarta, Indonesia. It hosts the western part of the city's main harbor, the Port of Tanjung Priok (located in Tanjung Priok Subdistrict and Koja Subdistrict). The Subdistrict of Tanjung Priok is bounded by Laksamana Yos Sudarso Tollway and Sunter River canal to the east, by Kali Japat, Kali Ancol, and the former Kemayoran Airport to the southwest, by Sunter Jaya Road and Sunter Kemayoran Road to the south, and by Jakarta Bay to the north.

History

The port with railway station in the background, sometime before 1940

Before human development, the coastal area of what is now Tanjung Priok was an area of brackish water with swamp and mangrove forest. The area was developed in the late nineteenth century as a new harbor of Batavia to replace the Sunda Kelapa harbor area to the west that had become too small for the increased traffic resulting from the opening of the Suez Canal. The construction of the new harbor was started in 1877 by Governor General Johan Wilhelm van Lansberge (1875-1881). The new harbor was named Tandjong Priok. Several facilities were built to support the function of the new harbor, such as the Tanjung Priok Station (1914).[1]

Tanjung Priok is variously spelled in history as "Tandjong Priok", "Tandjoeng Priok" or "Tanjon Preeq".

Riots

Tanjung Priok was the site of a widely publicized incident on September 12, 1984, when army forces fired on a group of Muslim protesters. The protesters were demonstrating against proposed government regulations that would require all formal organisations in the country to adopt Pancasila as their ideology. There were conflicting reports about the total death toll, but most sources indicate that several hundred protesters were killed.[2] After the fall of Suharto the case was taken up again, and in 2003 fourteen people, among them a former commander of the Kopassus special forces unit, were named as suspects in the 1984 killings.[3]

Kelurahan (administrative villages)

The Subdistrict of Tanjung Priok is divided into seven kelurahan ("administrative villages"):

  • Tanjung Priok - area code 14310
  • Kebon Bawang - area code 14320
  • Sungai Bambu - area code 14330
  • Papanggo - area code 14340
  • Warakas - area code 14340
  • Sunter Agung - area code 14350
  • Sunter Jaya - area code 14350

Important places

Tanjung Priok Station

On November 20, 2011, the Jakarta administration inaugurated the city's first railways tourism package aimed at attracting more tourists and reducing traffic congestion from Gambir railway station to the Tanjung Priok railway station.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cobban, James L. 1985. "The ephemeral historic district in Jakarta". Geographical Review 75(3):300-318.
  2. ↑ Burns, Peter. 1989. "The post Priok trials: religious principles and legal issues". Indonesia 47:61-88.
  3. ↑ 2003 Amnesty International Report Archived 2006-12-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Jakarta opens first railway tourism". November 21, 2011.

Coordinates: 6°08′S 106°54′E / 6.133°S 106.900°E / -6.133; 106.900

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