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Glodok (Chinese: 裹踱刻; pinyin: guǒ duó kè) is an urban village of Taman Sari, West Jakarta, Indonesia. The area is also known as Pecinan or Chinatown since the Dutch colonial era, and is considered the biggest in Indonesia. Majority of the traders and residents of Glodok are Chinese descent. The area dates back to colonial times when in ...
On 15 January 2025, a fire broke out at the nine-story Glodok Plaza shopping center in the Mangga Besar subdistrict of West Jakarta. The fire spread to the top floors, which were used as a karaoke center. A number of employees and attendees were trapped in the fire and were killed, with fourteen people unaccounted for.
Kim Tek Ie Temple, also called Vihara Dharma Bhakti, also known as 金德院 (Mandarin Jīn dé yuàn or Hokkien Kim Tek Ie), is a klenteng (a local term for a Chinese temple) located in the China Town neighborhood of Glodok, Jakarta, Indonesia. Completed in 1650, Vihara Dharma Bhakti is the oldest Chinese temple in Jakarta. [3] [4]
Prepping for a dance performance before a prayer service at St. Maria de Fatima Catholic Church in Glodok, a historic Chinatown district in Jakarta, Indonesia.
It was estimated that at least a thousand people died inside the buildings during the fires. Mobs also attacked Glodok in the northwestern part of the city, where the commercial area of Jakarta's Chinatown was severely damaged. Some store owners reportedly paid local thugs to protect them from the violence because security forces were mostly ...
Glodok commercial area. The area of Kota and Glodok remained Jakarta's central business and banking district during the 1950s. Jakarta in the 1950s was more or less similar with the colonial period: banking districts were still centered in Kota around Kali Besar and Jalan Pintu Besar Utara.
Jalan Gajah Mada and Jalan Hayam Wuruk (Gajah Mada and Hayam Wuruk Streets), formerly Molenvliet West and Molenvliet Oost respectively, is a major thoroughfare located in Jakarta, Indonesia. The two streets with its canal, the Batang Hari (formerly the Molenvliet), connect Glodok and Kota Tua Jakarta to the north with Harmoni Junction to the ...
He was scheduled to leave Jakarta at 7.25 p.m. (1215 GMT) on a plane bound for France. Atlaoui's repatriation will follow those in December of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino mother and former ...