TAMAN MINI INDONESIA INDAH

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) or "Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park" is a culture-based recreational area located in East Jakarta, Indonesia. It has an area of about 250 acres (1.0 km²). The park is a synopsis of Indonesian culture, with virtually all aspects of daily life in Indonesia's 26 (in 1975) provinces encapsulated in separate pavilions with the collections of Indonesian architecture, clothing, dances and traditions are all depicted impeccably. Apart from that, there is a lake with a miniature of the archipelago in the middle of it, cable cars, museums, Keong Emas Imax cinema, a theater called the Theatre of My Homeland (Theater Tanah Airku) and other recreational facilities which make TMII one of the most popular tourist destinations in the city.

Venues of Indonesian Provinces

Since each Indonesian province maintains its own unique and distinct cultures, shelters, attire and dialects, TMII built a model of each of the houses from Indonesian provinces. TMII attempted not only to reconstruct the homes of the various provinces, but also to create a realistic model of the environment and shelters of the various people of Indonesia. The venues, which are situated around the main lake in a similar fashion to the different islands of the Indonesian archipelago, are thematically divided into six areas in respect to the main islands of Indonesia; Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan (Borneo), Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku and Papua. Each pavilions featured in typical vernacular Indonesian architecture of each provinces. Examples of Indonesian traditional vernacular houses are: Joglo and Omah Kudus Javanese houses of Central Java and Yogyakarta pavilion; Minang Rumah Gadang of West Sumatra pavilion; Malay houses of Jambi and Riau provinces; Torajan Tongkonan and Bugis house of South Sulawesi pavilion; and Balinese house compound with intricately carved Candi Bentar split gate and Kori Agung gate.

It also displays various traditional costumes, wedding costumes, dance costumes, also ethnography artifacts such as weapons and daily tools, models of traditional architecture are in display to describes the way of life of its people. Each provinces pavilions also equipped with small stage, amphitheatre or auditorium for traditional dance performances, traditional music performances or traditional ceremonies that usually held in Sundays. Some of these pavilions also equipped with cafeterias featuring traditional Indonesian cuisines and also souvenir shops offering various handicrafts, t-shirts and souvenirs.

Since 1975 until 2000s, the original design of TMII consist of a model of the houses from the 27 provinces of Indonesia, including East Timor. But after the secession of East Timor from Indonesia in 2002, the East Timor pavilion changed its status to become the Museum of East Timor. Also since Indonesia now consist of 33 provinces, currently the new province pavilions of Bangka Belitung, Banten, West Sulawesi, North Maluku, Gorontalo, and West Papua is being built in northeast part of the park.

After the recognition of Indonesian Chinese culture as the integral part of Indonesian culture in 2000, the new Indonesian Chinese pavilion and a Confucian temple was built within the park.

Recreation facilities

• The Castle of Indonesian Children
•  Among Putro kiddy rides park
•  Handicraft center
• Rare books market
• Snowbay Waterpark swimmingpool
• Fishing pond
• Outbound camp

Religious Buildings

The religious buildings of several official faiths is meant to showcase the inter-faiths tolerance and religious harmony of Indonesia. The religious buildings are:

• Pangeran Diponegoro Mosque
• Santa Catharina Catholic church
• Haleluya Protestant church
• Penataran Agung Kertabhumi Balinese Hindu temple
• Arya Dwipa Arama Buddhist temple
• Sasana Adirasa Pangeran Samber Nyawa
• Kong Miao Confucian temple

Gardens and Parks

There are about ten gardens spread within TMII complex, but most are located primarily on the north and northeast side of the main lake:

• Orchid Garden
• Medicinal herbs Garden
• Cactus Garden
• Jasmine Garden
• Keong Emas (Golden Snail) Flower Garden
• Fresh Water Aquarium
• Bekisar (a type of rooster) Garden
• Bird Park
• Taman Ria Atmaja Park, stage and music performances
• Taman Budaya Tionghoa Indonesia, an Indonesian Chinese cultural park (under construction)
• Reptile Park in Komodo Zoological Museum compound. A fully grown Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) nicknamed Bima resides in the reptile park near the eastern gate, which you can pet and take pictures with for Rp.5,000 ($0.60).

BOGOR BOTANICAL GARDEN

Bogor Botanical Gardens or the Bogor Botanical Gardens is a large botanical garden located in the city of Bogor, Indonesia. The extent of 87 acres and has 15,000 species of tree and plant collections. Bogor Botanical Gardens was originally a part of 'samida' (artificial forests or artificial garden) which has existed at least in the reign of Sri Baduga Maharaja (King Siliwangi, 1474-1513) of the Kingdom of Sunda, as stated in the inscription Batutulis. Artificial forest is intended for the purposes of protecting the environment as a place to nurture the seed of seeds of rare wood.

In the early 1800's the Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles, who inhabited the Bogor Palace and has a great interest in botany, interested in developing Bogor Palace yard into a beautiful garden. With the help of the botanist, W. Kent, who helped build Kew Garden in London, Raffles turn a courtyard into a classic English-style garden. This is the beginning of the Botanical Garden in its present form.

The idea began with the establishment of the Botanical Gardens of Abner is a biologist who wrote to the Governor-General GAGPh. van der Capellen. In the letter revealed his desire to ask for a piece of land that will be used as a garden of useful plants, where teacher education, and collection of plants for the development of other gardens.

Approximately 47 acres of land around the former presidential palace in Bogor and the first land to be samida botanical garden. Reinwardt became its first director from 1817 until 1822. This opportunity is used to collect plants and seeds from other parts of the archipelago. Bogor immediately became the center of the development of agriculture and horticulture in Indonesia. At that time an estimated 900 living plants were planted in the orchard.

In 1822 Reinwardt back to Holland and was replaced by Dr. Carl Ludwig Blume to take inventory of the collection of plants that grow in the garden. He also compiled the first catalog of the garden were recorded as many as 912 species (species) of plants. Implementation of the development of this garden has been postponed due to lack of funds but then again pioneered by Johannes Elias Teysmann (1831), an expert in the palace gardens Governor-General Johannes van den Bosch. With the assistance of Karl Justus Hasskarl, he made arrangements with the collection of plant cultivation in tribal grouping (families).

Establishment of the Bogor Botanical Gardens can be said to initiate the development of science in Indonesia. From this was born a few other scientific institutions, such as the Bibliotheca Bogoriensis (1842), Herbarium Bogoriense (1844), Cibodas Botanical Garden (1860), Laboratory Treub (1884), and the Museum and Laboratory of Zoology (1894).

On May 30, 1868 Bogor Botanical Gardens formally separate the management is with the Bogor Palace yard.

At first, this garden will only be used as an experimental garden for crops that will be introduced to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). But in its development is also used as a forum for research scientists of that era (1880-1905).

Bogor Botanical Gardens have always been substantial progress under the leadership of Dr. Carl Ludwig Blume (1822), JE. Teijsmann and Dr. Hasskarl (era of the Governor-General Van den Bosch), J. E. Teijsmann and Simon Binnendijk, Dr. R.H.C.C. Scheffer (1867), Prof. Dr. Treub Melchior (1881), Dr. Christiaan Jacob Koningsberger (1904), Van den Hornett (1904), and Prof. Ir. Koestono Setijowirjo (1949), which is the first Indonesian who was a leading international research institutions.

At the time of the leadership figures that have been carried out activities of production of a catalog of the Botanical Garden, a complete listing of the collection Cryptogamae plants, 25 species of Gymnosperms, 51 species and 2200 species Monocotyledonae Dicotyledonae, business introduction of important economic crops in Indonesia, collection of plants useful for Indonesia (43 types, including vanilla, coconut oil, quinine, gutta percha, sugarcane, cassava, corn from America, ironwood from Palembang and Kalimantan), and develop internal institutional at the Botanical Gardens are:
• Herbarium
• Museum
• Laboratory of Botany
• Garden Experiment
• Chemical Laboratory
• Laboratory of Pharmaceutical
• Branch of the Botanical Gardens in Sibolangit, Deli Serdang and in Purwodadi, Pasuruan
• Photographic Library and Administration
• Establishment of the Office of Fisheries and the Academy of Sciences (the forerunner IPB).

Bogor Botanical Gardens throughout the course of history have different names and nicknames, such as:
• s'Lands Plantentuin
• Syokubutzuer (the time of the Japanese Occupation)
• Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg
• Botanical Garden of Indonesia
• Garden Gede
• Gardens mate

Collection of trees and plants

•  One of the main attractions is the Botanical Garden corpse flower (Amorphophalus

    titanum) as close to bloom time will remove the pungent smell of carrion. These flowers

    can reach a height of 2m and is the world's largest compound flower plants.
•  The oldest palm trees in Southeast Asia are still alive today.

Planting Flower Wreck

• On December 19, 1992, ditanamlah carrion flower carrion flower species Amorphophalus Becc

   titanum. (Araceae or interest-talasan taro). Flowers are from estuary Aimat - Jambi, tubers

   weighing 30 kg.
• On February 5, 1994, flower buds appear, later on March 9, 1994 has reached one meter high. Five

   days later the plant height was increased to 1.5 meters. Because of this, including rare plants, the

   plant is one of the plants are protected and bred.

Memorial Reinwardt

On May 16, 2006, commemorating 189 years of the Botanical Garden (KRB), Embassy of Germany in conjunction with Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), launched Memorial Reinwardt in the garden complex. A simple monument in front of the Istana Bogor across the pond was inaugurated by the Head of LIPI Anggara Umar Jenie and the German Ambassador for Indonesia, Joachim Gröger Broudré-.

This anniversary is also enlivened by the "ASEAN-China Workshop on Management and Botanical Garden Plant Conservation". Besides China, the activity was followed by ASEAN member countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The workshop aims to enhance cooperation in the areas of plantation and conservation of plants in the ASEAN-China region.

Summit of the anniversary was marked by the planting of tree seedlings by the ten ASEAN Environment Minister who is present in the framework of the "ASEAN Environmental Year" in Indonesia. The event was the third time after the first in Brunei Darussalam in 2000 and the second in Cambodia in 2003