HISTORY OF INDONESIA, CIPANAS PALACE

CIPANAS PALACE BETWEEN 1800-1962

The word comes from the Sundanese Cipanas; ci or cai means water, and heat is the heat in the Indonesian language. The word is a name of a village, the village of Cipanas because in this place there are hot springs that contain sulfur.

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Cipanas Presidential Palace began in a building which was founded in 1740 by a private owner, a landlord Dutchman named Van Heots. But in the reign of the Dutch East Indies, to be exact start of Governor-General GW Baron van Imhoff (1743), because the appeal of the hot springs, built a medical building around these hot springs. Then, because of the cool mountain air charisma and natural, clean and fresh, the building was used as a resting place of the Governor-General of the Netherlands.

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Since its establishment in the reign of the Netherlands, the Presidential Palace Cipanas functioned as a place of rest and stopover. However, a very beautiful landscape around the main attraction for the visitors, so that in the reign of the van Imhoff, rest stops / rest time switch functions. Because the power of hot springs that contain sulfur, and because of the cool mountain air and clean, the building was once used as a treatment for military members of the Company who need to receive treatment.
  

CIPANAS PALACE 1980

Commissioner-General Leonard Pietr Josef du Bus de Gisignies, for example, recorded the most happy that sulfur baths. Similarly Sirardus Carel Willem van Graaf Hogendorp, secretary (1820-1841). Additionally Daendeles Herman Willem (1808-1811) and Thomas Stanford Raffles (1811-1816) during his official put several hundred people in that place; some Basar of their work in the apple orchard and flower garden and in rice mills, in addition to the care of cattle, sheep - sheep, and horses.

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Physically, since its establishment until now, the travel history of the Palace Cipanas changed much. Gradually, from year to year, this palace grew and grew. Starting from 1916, still in the reign of the Dutch East Indies, three buildings standing in this palace complex. Now all three are known by the name of Yudhishthira Pavilion, Pavilion of Bhima, and Arjuna Pavilion.

Nine years later, in 1954 at the offices of President I of the Republic of Indonesia, Sukarno, established a small building, located next to the back of the Main Building. Different from other buildings, around the outer walls as well as front and side yard building is decorated with stone-shaped bumps. By taking the form of wall hangings and pelatarannya reason, the name of this building unique sound, which is building small bump. (Bump from Sunda language; equivalent bump in the Indonesian language as well, such as mosquito bites).

Twenty-nine years later, in 1983, during the second President of the Republic of Indonesia, Suharto, following two other pavilions stand, namely Pavilion Pavilion Nakula and Sahadeva.

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Cipans Presidential Palace had also functioned as a family residence by a family of Governor-General of the Netherlands. Who had inhabited the building was the family Andrias Cornelis de Graaf (who during his reign in 1926 -1931), Cornelius Bonifacius de Jonge (1931), and lastly, that coincide with the arrival of the Japanese occupation (1942), is Tjarda Starkenborg Stachourwer van.

After the independence of Indonesia, the building was officially established as one of the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Indonesia and its function remains in use as a resting place of President or Vice-President of the Republic of Indonesia and his family.

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Cipanas Presidential Palace also noted the important events in the history of the bow line of the Indonesian economy, namely that on December 13, 1965, Dining Room Main Building, once functioned as a cabinet convened in the context of determining changes in the dollar value of Rp 1,000, 00 to Rp1, 00 , precisely at the time of President Sukarno and the Republic of Indonesia at the time chaired by Finance Minister Frans Seda

In accordance with the functions of the Presidential Palace Cipanas, not used for receiving guests. However, in 1971, Queen Juliana also took the time to stop in this palace during his visit to Indonesia.

(RI Presidential Palace, Presidential Secretariat, 2004)