I bought a pack of "cigarettes" that were cleverly disguised plum-sweets, it became the talking-point in the office for the day. Pretty cool stuff.



Over the weekend, I hit Taman Mini again, this time to visit as many museums as possible and to cover the park entirely as possible, today will be the 2nd and last time I am visiting Taman Mini Indah, the cultural and historical miniature of the whole of Indonesia. Our main objective was to visit as many museums as possible; there are fourteen museums at TMII and I have already visited 3.

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.



Entrance to the Indonesia Museum

















































































































All in all, probably the most impressive museum in the whole of TMII, well-organized and laid out exhibits as well as well designed and captioned/description-ed explanations of the exhibits.





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), SulaIsi, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku and Papua.


Museum of information and communication









60's-style camera.










40's printing press


A 40's type-setter




Since 1975 until 2000s, the original design of TMII consists 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, Ist SulaIsi, North Maluku, Gorontalo, and Ist Papua is being built in northeast part of the park.


The religious buildings of several official faiths are 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 and Sasana Adirasa Pangeran Samber Nyawa.

There are about ten gardens spread within TMII: Orchid Garden, Medicinal herbs Garden, Cactus Garden, Jasmine Garden, Keong Emas (Golden Snail) FloIr Garden, Fresh Water Aquarium, Bekisar (a type of rooster) Garden, Bird Park, Taman Ria Atmaja Park and Taman Budaya Tionghoa Indonesia.

Within TMII, there are many Monuments, Halls, Buildings and other Exhibits: FloIr clock, Tugu Api Pancasila, the main monument, an obelisk celebrating Pancasila, BaluIrti, a twin gate with relief of Indonesian history on its wall, Pendopo Agung Sasono Utomo (Grand Hall), the main building in Javanese Joglo style, Sasono Utomo, exhibition hall, Sasono Langen Budoyo, indoor stage and theater, Sasono Manganti, Sasana Kriya handycraft center, Cokot Sculpture, a display of wooden sculptures by Cokot, a famous Balinese artist, The Miniature of Borobudur, APEC Memorial Monument and Garden, Non Alignment Nations Friendship Monument and Garden, The Miniature of Indonesian Archipelago on central lake, Indonesian Archipelago Plaza and Stag, Jati Taminah, a remnant of a large teak tree, Kayu Gede (large wood), the display of large tree trunk.



New museum coming soon...


Cactus garden.


"Pharmacy" garden, but actually it's a "herbal medicine" garden.




Jasmine garden (Taman Melati)


Aviary










Research & Technology Information Centre (Pusat Perangaan Iptek), Jakarta's equivalent of Singapore's Science Centre. Don't get your hopes too high up though.



























Fibre optics.




Polarizers


Lasers


Prisms


More polarizers


More prisms








This would show temperature and gas expansion due to heat... If the lamps worked..


This fancy-looking exhibit that allows you to control the robots pulling the control rods in or out of the "reactor" looked very interesting!.. If it worked..




Electricity & New Energy Museum (Listrik dan Energi Baru)






Horse Power



Pressured Water Reactor model.


Solar heaters








The camera was so far away I actually look like a 2D-cardboard against this Nuclear Reactor model.


















Komodo dragon museum











Keprajuritan museum or "Soldiering" Museum...

.. was the most disappointing of all, I had good hopes that the exhibits would be militarily interesting given the very fortuitous fort-like exterior constructions. But the interior was only mannequins dressed in various traditional "warrior" costumes = some just wearing a sarong.




TNI's SAR rescue helicopter


Transportation Museum



















Made by the famous KRUPP industries of Germany.


choo-chooooo







Used to exist in Jakarta as a form of transportation.


This is quite nice actually, the entire transportation of Jakarta.










That's it. The last of TMII.

I have already visited the Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum and the Dunia Air Tawar (freshwater aquarium) and today only managed to visit 5 other museums: the Indonesia Museum, Penerangan Museum (Infomation), Research & Technology Information Centre (Pusat Perangaan Iptek), Electricity & New Energy Museum (Listrik dan Energi Baru), “Soldiering” Museum and the Transportation Museum.

I missed the Indonesian stamps Museum (prangko), Pusaka (Heirloom) Museum, Olah raga (Sports) Museum, Asmat Museum, Komodo Museum and Reptile Park, Insects Museum, Oil & Gas Museum, East Timor Museum (former East Timor province pavilion) and the Telecommunication Museum, that’s 8.

Not a bad day after all.