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The National Archives Museum is one of the cultural tourism centers in Jakarta, with the presevation of building that are maintained, looking clasic as one of the recommendations for tourism in the city of Jakarta. This place is usually used for weddings with outdoor garden concepts
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Indonesia - The National Monument
Built 1975
The National Monument is the national monument of the Republic of Indonesia, built to commemorate the struggle for Indonesian independence. Construction began in 1961 under the direction of President Sukarno. Monas was opened to the public in 1975. It is topped by a flame covered with gold foil. It is a 132 m (433 ft) tower in the centre of Merdeka Square, Central Jakarta, symbolizing the fight for Indonesia.
The monument and the museum are open daily from 08.00 until 16.00 Western Indonesia Time (UTC+7) throughout the week except for the Mondays when the monument is closed. Since April 2016, the monument also opens during night time, from 19.00 until 22.00 in Tuesday to Friday, and from 19.00 until 00.00 in Saturday and Sunday.
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Walk Around ~ Gedung Arsip Nasional - Jalan Gajah Mada - Museum Candra Naya - GM City Walk Jakarta
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Jalan Gajah Mada (Dahulu Molenvliet West) Adalah Nama Jalan Di Jakarta yang menghubungkan Kota lama dan Kota baru. Di bagian tengah jalan itu mengalir Kali Ciliwung. Jalan ini dibuat tahun 1648 oleh pemuka masyarakat Phoa Beng Gan. Molenvliet West berarti jalan yang berada di sisi sebelah barat kali. Di sepanjang jalan berdiri banyak bangunan seperti rumah keluarga Khouw, Gedung Arsip Nasional, kantor Perusahaan Gas Hindia Belanda, Moenswijk, Gedung Harmonie, gedung Freres, bangunan keempat Hotel des Indes, Hotel Marine, dan cabang utama Toko Eigen Hulp. Wodbury & Page juga pernah mengambil gambar sepanjang Jl. Molenvliet Barat (1863).
Jalan Gajah Mada (Formerly Molenvliet West) is the name of the street in Jakarta that connects the old city and the new city. In the middle of the road Ciliwung River flows. This road was made in 1648 by the community leader Phoa Beng Gan. Molenvliet West means the road that is on the west side of the river. Along the road stood many buildings such as the Khouw family home, the National Archives Building, the Dutch East Indies Gas Company office, Moenswijk, the Harmonie Building, the Freres building, the fourth building of the Hotel des Indes, the Marine Hotel, and the main branch of the Eigen Hulp Store. Wodbury & Page also took pictures along Jl. West Molenvliet (1863).
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Fatahillah Square | Kota Tua Jakarta | Old Town of Jakarta | Old Batavia
#JakartaOldTown also known as Old Batavia, or locally referred to as #KotaTuaJakarta , was the downtown area of the capital long ago. The Old Town depicts the occupation of the Dutch East India Company.
A walk through town will immerse you in streetscapes lined with buildings boasting architectural features of a bygone era and in some corners around town you’ll find what is considered among the best samples of Dutch colonial architecture in the region.
Consistent with the nostalgic aura of the old town, most of the museums in Jakarta are found within Kota Tua.
These include the Jakarta History Museum, otherwise known as the #Fatahillah Museum, after the admiral and national hero who gave Jakarta its primordial name, ‘Jayakarta’, literally ‘town of victory’.
Other museums include the Indonesian Maritime Museum, two bank museums namely Bank Mandiri and Bank Indonesia, the Wayang or Puppet Museum, and the Museum of Sculpture and Ceramic Arts Museum.
Most of these museums are former colonial buildings and restored by retaining much of their original #architectural features.
The ceramic #arts #museum for example, was a Dutch courthouse, and Fatahillah was once the town hall of Batavia. The national archive building, or Gedung Arsip Nasional, which can also be found here, was the former residence of Dutch East Indies governor general Reynier de Klerck.
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Kamar Diponegoro di Museum Sejarah Jakarta
Salah satu ruangan yang digunakan oleh pahlawan nasional Indonesia, Pangeran Diponegoro (1785-1855), selama pemenjaraannya di Stadhuis (Balai Kota Batavia) antara 8 April hingga 3 Mei 1830. Ditangkap secara licik di Magelang oleh komandan tentara Belanda, Jenderal Hendrik Merkus de Kock (1779-1845), pada tanggal 28 Maret 1830, selama 'negosiasi perdamaian' pada akhir Perang Jawa (1825-1830), dan dibawa dari Semarang ke Batavia dengan kapal uap, SS Van der Capellen, Diponegoro menghabiskan 26 hari di dua kamar ini dengan istrinya, Raden Ayu Retnoningsih (sekitar 1810-1885), adik perempuannya, Raden Ayu Dipowiyono, saudara ipar, Raden Tumenggung Dipowiyono, dan 19 punakawan (pembantu akrab) dan pembantu, menunggu keputusan Gubernur-Jenderal mengenai pengasingan politiknya di Sulawesi (Manado, 1830-1833; Makassar, 1833-1855).
Selama 26 hari di Stadhuis, Diponegoro menulis dua surat kepada keluarga dekatnya (ibunda, Raden Ayu Mangkorowati (sekitar 1770-1852), dan anak laki-laki tertua, Pangeran Diponegoro Muda [sekitar 1803-pasca-Maret 1856]), mengunyah sejumlah besar sirih, memberi dirinya obat jamu (temu lawak, beras kencur) untuk mengatur demam malaria, dan potretnya dibuat sketsa oleh Kepala Hakim Batavia, Adrianus Johannes (Jan) Bik (1790-1872), seorang seniman berbakat yang bertugas untuk mengawasi pangeran selama ia berada di ibu kota kolonial.
Kamar Diponegoro adalah bagian dari Museum Sejarah Jakarta.
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Berikut individu dan lembaga telah memainkan peran kunci dalam menyelenggarakan pameran unik ini yang menghubungkan Stadhuis (Balai Kota Batavia dan pusat pemerintahan kolonial / otoritas peradilan) dan pribadi Pangeran Diponegoro (1785-1855) :
Carlo Nijveen (Wartawan, Ijmuider Courant, Untuk gambar Bik)
Dr Kees Briët (Penghakim tinggi, Sejarawan Hukum di Indonesia, Untuk gambar Bik)
Harm Stevens (Kurator seni abad ke-20,, Rijksmuseum – sketsa DN oleh Bik)
Dr Mark Loderichs (Sejarawan Militer)
Mrs Joan Arnold Bik née Nieulant Pelkman (Untuk gambar Bik)
Mrs Erna Muntendam, Gemeente Velsen (Untuk gambar Bik)
Dr Michiel de Jong (Dosen di military history Koninklijke Militaire Akademie (KMA) Breda
Peter Natadihardja (PT Paperina Dwijaya)
Rizadini Manoppo (Red & White Publishing)
Adityayoga (Desainer / Institut Kesenian Jakarta)
Stephanus Wijaya (Globe Digital Imaging)
Hauw Ming (Kolektor Seni, Fasilitator dan Sponsor)
Peter Carey
Subiyanto
Dian Sulistyowati
Bondan Fabius
Howard Brawijaya & Eric Gregor (Printlab)
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Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia
Nationaal Archief, (Dutch National Archives) Den Haag
National Library, Singapore.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Marinemuseum, Dutch Naval Museum, Den Helder, The Netherlands
Koninklijke Militaire Akademie (KMA) Breda
Bunkermuseum, IJmuiden
Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden (UBL)
Delpher Kranten Archief, Belanda
Gedung Arsip Nasional
The National Archives building was built as a residence in 1760 by Reiner de Klerk, who became the governing general of the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), Dutch United East India Company, in 1777. Reiner de Klerk's residence was constructed as a compound of five buildings. The main building is a stately two-storey, brick structure with a high pitched roof and features a grand entrance hall and a beautifully decorated light vent above the main doors. The other buildings in the complex are smaller but are similar in style and were built as administrative offices and to house servants.
Over its history the complex has changed hands a number of times. After the death of Reiner de Klerk the buildings were sold and later became an orphanage. The complex was subsequently abandoned and was left to deteriorate until the Dutch colonial Government converted it for use by the Mining Department. In 1925 the main building was renovated and became the Landsarchief (national archive). When the Indonesian Government took over the building upon Independence in 1945, it continued to function as an archive and has since been known as 'Gedung Arsip Nasional Republic Indonesia' (the National Archive Building of the Republic of Indonesia). The Indonesian Government expanded the compound with the addition of a two-storey u-shaped building, joined to the rear auxiliary building. The building's function continued until the mid nineteen-eighties when the archives were relocated to a more modern building. The complex then became vacant and steadily deteriorated until restoration work began in 1997
Here, Living With Dead Bodies for Weeks—Or Years—Is Tradition | National Geographic
On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the Torajan people believe that a person is not truly dead until water buffalo have been sacrificed at their funeral, serving as the vehicle to the afterlife. Until that time, the bodies are may be kept at the family's home for weeks, months or years and are fed and cared for as if they were alive. Some Torajans continue their relationship with the dead through a ma'nene' ceremony, a type of second funeral in which families bring out their ancestors every few years and change their clothes and clean their bodies and crypts.
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Indonesia - Aftermath of tribal fighting
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Soldiers shot dead two men on Friday (22/08) as they tried to
control tribal unrest near the town of Timika in the remote
Indonesian province of Irian Jaya.
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Jakata - Graves hold secrets of Indonesia's mass killings | Editor's Pick | 5 Oct 16
It's been 51 years since an abortive coup in 1965 which Indonesia's military blamed on the country's powerful Communist Party.
The coup brought to a head a long-simmering rivalry and ignited a months-long bloodbath that historians estimate killed half a million people.
The Pancasila Sakti museum on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta shows how six generals and an adjutant were killed in the coup and their bodies thrown into a well.
But as the military's version of history, it doesn't address the killings that were orchestrated by the military and often carried out by militias and Islamic groups.
Half a century later, those who survived and the descendants of Communist Party members, have many unanswered questions.
One of the most pressing is where their friends and relatives were buried.
One of the mass graves is believed to be located in lush forest at Plumbon village in Central Java.
Villagers say the bodies are buried there.
Eight names were listed on a monument erected in 2015 - Moetiah, Soesatjo, Darsono, Sachroni, Joesoef, Soekandar, Doelkhamid and Soerono.
And it adds the site may contain as many as 24 bodies.
Erected after activists persuaded villagers, religious leaders and local officials, it is a rare acknowledgement of the victims of Indonesia's anti-communist massacres and an even rarer act of compromise.
Supar, who was 17-years-old in 1965, is one of the few living witnesses to events in Plumbon.
Now toothless and aged beyond his 68 years, he said naive curiosity got him entangled in the massacre of 12 people accused of being communists.
Supar, who goes by one name, said he has stayed away from Plumbon ever since the massacre.
It was dark, after 11 pm, Supar said, and raining heavily when the military jeep and a truck transporting the alleged members of the Partai Komunis Indonesia, or PKI, arrived at the site near Plumbon - two holes had been dug.
The executions usually happened after midnight but because of the rain, the two soldiers didn't wait.
They were told to sit down on the ground side by side. They prayed or recited whatever verse they knew from the Quran, he said.
After the execution I was told to shine the torch.
I couldn't look so I turned my face away but the soldier yelled at me: don't look away. Those still moving, the soldiers shot them again and again.
In the decades of the Suharto New Order era that followed, the events of 1965-66 were depicted as a heroic uprising against communism.
The scale and ferocity of the killings by the military, militias and Islamic groups was expunged from the national consciousness.
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Russian Pres Putin meets his Indonesian counterpart
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1. Wide shot plane taxiing
2. Mid shot honour guards, plane in background
3. Mid shot guard officer
4. Wide shot pan of plane
5. Wide shot greeting party walking to plane
6. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, emerges from plane and walks down steps
7. Wide shot members of the presidential staff coming down from plane
8. Wide shot president greeted by Russian officials
9. Mid shot honour guards, Russian flags
10. Wide shot troop commander reports to the Indonesian President
11.Mid shot Russian and Indonesian flags
12. Mid shot pan, President of Indonesia and Russian chief of protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, inspect honorary guards
15. Mid shot marching guards
16. Mid shot, zoom out, Indonesian President watching passing troops
STORYLINE
Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrived in Moscow on Thursday.
During his visit, he will discuss with the Russian leadership prospects for the development of cooperation between the two countries.
The Indonesian leader is on a three-day official visit to Russia which began on Wednesday with a visit to St Petersburg.
He prayed at the Cathedral Mosque and visited the State Hermitage museum and the Admiralteiskiye Verfi shipyard, where he saw some of Russia's latest developments, including state-of-the-art submarines.
On Friday, he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and will take part in the opening of a business forum, to be held under the aegis of the chambers of commerce and industry of the two countries.
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INDONESIA: JAVA: FARMER REPORTEDLY BEATEN TO DEATH
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A farmer has reportedly been beaten to death in West Java by a mob who believed he was a sorcerer.
The attack was the latest to be reported in a wave of murders of Muslims accused of practicing black magic.
Police and media reports say in recent months towns in East Java have been terrorised by at least 153 murders, carried out by mobs of killers dressed in black robes.
Witnesses have said the killers strike at night.
These men are out on patrol in the coastal town of Banyuwangi, guarding against further attacks.
For several months, towns in East Java have been terrorised by at least 153 murders - many victims had belonged to the 30-million member strong Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest Muslim group.
Most of the killings have been concentrated in Banyuwangi, where dozens of Muslim clergy now shelter under police protection, fearing for their lives.
SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian)
From six o'clock every evening until dawn the next day, everyone in the town lives in a state of fear
SUPER CAPTION: Yusuf Syakir, Resident
Many residents are now too afraid to venture out at night.
SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian)
Before, my wife never used to lock the door to the house. Now, I cannot get inside at night because she is so scared she keeps the door locked all the time
SUPER CAPTION: Soeparjo Thalib, Resident
Many other villages have also been targets.
Troops have been deployed to the eastern part of Java, Indonesia's main island, in the fear of more outbreaks of violence.
In Kedalemam Village, about 16 kilometres (9 miles) houses have also been destroyed.
In the latest in a wave of murders of Muslims accused of practicing black magic was reported by the media on Wednesday.
A farmer was reportedly beaten to death in West Java by a mob who said he was a sorcerer.
About one-hundred villagers attacked Haji Jajul bin Suhaemi outside a mosque in Serang, a small town about 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of the capital, Jakarta, the official Antara news agency reported.
Police said the crowd accused Jajul of being an evil sorcerer despite his reputation as a devout Muslim who had once made the pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam's holy city in Saudi Arabia.
The mob was intent on testing Jajul's guilt by immersing him in a pool of water at the local mosque, but started to beat him to death along the way, police said.
The local Muslim Organisation in Banyuwangi suspects the killings to be highly organised.
SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian)
These killings seem so organised, so well-planned, it appears that somebody is financing them, that there is some institution behind this.
SUPER CAPTION: Abdul Hadi, Leader of Local Muslim Organisation
Social tensions and unrest have escalated in Indonesia following the fall of autocratic President Suharto last May amid the country's worst economic crisis in 32 years.
Riots and looting have erupted in some areas as food shortages, rising inflation and mass unemployment make life miserable for (m) millions of poor people.
The murders are adding to the villagers' misery.
Victims have their throats cut and some mutilated bodies have been found hanging in trees or lying in the street.
SOUNDBITE: (Javanese)
Suddenly I woke up to find a sickle at my neck. I tried to fend it off with my hands but they threw me down and kicked me in the neck. I screamed and they ran away.
SUPER CAPTION: Wardiah, Victim
Police have arrested 169 suspects but say they have failed to establish a clear motive for the killings.
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Old Town of Jakarta nominated for UNESCO World Heritage List
(19 Jun 2018) LEADIN
The Old Town of Jakarta is one of 30 sites to be nominated for inclusion on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Local people are delighted at the prospect of the area attracting more tourists.
STORYLINE :
The Old Town of Jakarta is always busy, and particularly so during the Eid Al Fitr holidays.
Today thousands are gathered around the Museum Fatahillah, the former Dutch colonial governor's office which was built in the centre of the Old Town in 1710.
Formerly known as Old Batavia, the Old Town of Jakarta is one of 30 sites to be nominated for inclusion on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
People come here to walk around and ride their bikes as well as take in the history, culture and entertainment.
People pay ten thousand rupiah (8 US cents) to have their photographs taken with the performance artists.
Imam Muslim is a visitor who is here with his parents.
I always come here to find peace and comfort myself because I can meet with many people from out of town, even tourists from abroad, he says.
Reza Sumarno, a performance artist, has been smearing his body with paint to make himself look like a statue in front of the museum for the last two years. Although he has to work for 10 hours a day, he can raise as much as one million rupiah (90 US Dollars) and the boost in visitors during holiday times is very much welcomed.
He says he hopes the Old Town will be awarded World heritage status: because it will be more protected and it will become easier for me to work.
While the Old Town has its own charm, traders who crowd the streets can make it look slum-like and disorganised.
The government is currently conducting work to restore some of its historic buildings to improve its chances of being recognised by UNESCO.
The Kali Besar canal which divides the Old Town is being dredged and cleaned and supporting facilities such as parks and pedestrian paths are also being improved.
Australian tourist Pamela Raydon says making the World Heritage list would help preserve the area even further:
When its receives world heritage status then I believe that there will be investment in the infrastructure to improve the buildings and bring them back to their former glory and also improve amenity for people to come and visit.
The World Heritage Committee are set to consider the new nomionations during a meeting in Manama, Bahrain from 24 June to 4 July 2018.
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Graves hold secrets of Indonesia's mass killings
(5 Oct 2016) It's been 51 years since an abortive coup in 1965 which Indonesia's military blamed on the country's powerful Communist Party.
The coup brought to a head a long-simmering rivalry and ignited a months-long bloodbath that historians estimate killed half a million people.
The Pancasila Sakti museum on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta shows how six generals and an adjutant were killed in the coup and their bodies thrown into a well.
But as the military's version of history, it doesn't address the killings that were orchestrated by the military and often carried out by militias and Islamic groups.
Half a century later, those who survived and the descendants of Communist Party members, have many unanswered questions.
One of the most pressing is where their friends and relatives were buried.
One of the mass graves is believed to be located in lush forest at Plumbon village in Central Java.
Villagers say the bodies are buried there.
Eight names were listed on a monument erected in 2015 - Moetiah, Soesatjo, Darsono, Sachroni, Joesoef, Soekandar, Doelkhamid and Soerono.
And it adds the site may contain as many as 24 bodies.
Erected after activists persuaded villagers, religious leaders and local officials, it is a rare acknowledgement of the victims of Indonesia's anti-communist massacres and an even rarer act of compromise.
Supar, who was 17-years-old in 1965, is one of the few living witnesses to events in Plumbon.
Now toothless and aged beyond his 68 years, he said naive curiosity got him entangled in the massacre of 12 people accused of being communists.
Supar, who goes by one name, said he has stayed away from Plumbon ever since the massacre.
It was dark, after 11 pm, Supar said, and raining heavily when the military jeep and a truck transporting the alleged members of the Partai Komunis Indonesia, or PKI, arrived at the site near Plumbon - two holes had been dug.
The executions usually happened after midnight but because of the rain, the two soldiers didn't wait.
They were told to sit down on the ground side by side. They prayed or recited whatever verse they knew from the Quran, he said.
After the execution I was told to shine the torch.
I couldn't look so I turned my face away but the soldier yelled at me: don't look away. Those still moving, the soldiers shot them again and again.
In the decades of the Suharto New Order era that followed, the events of 1965-66 were depicted as a heroic uprising against communism.
The scale and ferocity of the killings by the military, militias and Islamic groups was expunged from the national consciousness.
Even today, tens of thousands of descendants of communists face discrimination that bars them from government jobs.
Suharto's ouster in 1998 allowed another narrative about 1965 to begin seeping into the national conversation.
Earlier this year, the government permitted an unprecedented symposium that brought together survivors and anti-communists such as the military and Islamic groups.
Agus Widjojo, the governor of the National Resilience Institute representing the Indonesian government as well as the symposium organiser and son of a general killed in the abortive coup, hoped they could pave the way for truth-seeking and reconciliation.
But progress was brought to a halt by a fierce backlash from conservatives and apparent disinterest from President Joko Jokowi Widodo.
A cabinet reshuffle that installed a former military chief with a checkered human rights record to the ministry overseeing a tentative effort to locate mass graves seemed to be a death blow.
When Sukar and three other men went to the location, one of them sank to the ground and another had to support himself against a tree, Sukar said.
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Head of North Korean parliament meets Indonesian president
(15 May 2012) 1. Mid of Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono standing waiting for President of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Yong Nam to arrive
2. Wide of car arriving
3. Mid of Yudhoyono and Kim shaking hands
4. Pan of Yudhoyono and Kim walking
5. Mid of Indonesian honour guard gun salute
6. Wide of welcoming ceremony
7. Mid shot of Kim on podium
8. Close-up of North Korean and Indonesian flags
9. Wide of Kim bowing to flags
10. Various of Yudhoyono and Kim at bilateral meeting
11. Wide of meeting
12. Various of Yudhoyono and Kim during the meeting
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STORYLINE:
North Korea's ceremonial head of state is in Indonesia in what appears to be an effort to increase investment.
Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of North Korea's parliament, visited the national museum in Jakarta and attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the hero's cemetery on Monday.
He met President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and other officials on Tuesday.
The North Korean leader was welcomed by an Indonesian honour guard before bi-lateral talks with Yudhoyono and other officials.
Kim's three-day visit appears to be part of North Korean efforts to beef up trade and get guidance on improving the country's impoverished economy.
Indonesia plans to discuss tensions on the Korean peninsula amid concerns Pyongyang may conduct a third nuclear test.
Kim also visited Singapore over the weekend.
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Show must go on for Indonesia's oldest theatre group
Indonesia's oldest traditional theatre group has survived it all - the Dutch colonial era, Japanese occupation and the turbulent years of early independence.
But now it's struggling to find an audience among the fast-paced urban life of Jakarta, the Indonesian capital.
STORYLINE:
Rehearsals for Indonesia's oldest traditional theatre group's upcoming show.
Miss Tjitjih theatre group was formed in 1928 in the capital city of Jakarta during Dutch colonial times.
The group's name is taken from their first leading actress, whose beauty and acting abilities captivated both Dutch and Indonesians audience members during the time.
Legend has it that Miss Tjitjih died on stage in front of a packed audience having refused to stop performing despite sickness.
Up to the 1970s, the group was well-known for its historical plays, taking stories from classic Javanese folklore.
They also used to perform exclusively in Sundanese, an old dialect spoken only by natives in the western part of Java island.
But the arrival of film and television, as well as modern theatre, has forced Miss Tjitjih to make some tough changes.
Abandoning historical stories due to their declining popularity in favour of popular topics such as urban legends, street violence and homosexuality, Miss Tjitjih is now moving with the times.
Also, in a move to a attract a wider audience, actors now use both the Sundanese dialect and the national Indonesian language.
Current Miss Tjitjih director is Imas Darsih who says they've now gained a reputation for mixing the comedy genre with supernatural stories.
The Miss Tjitjih theatre group has long been famous for its horror plays that are known as jurig stories in Sundanese culture. Whenever we present a play featuring ghosts and mystical elements, a lot of people come to see our show, says Darsih.
Showtime at the theatre and their latest play which tells the story of a young male student who is bullied at school for being gay.
The student dies during a fight at school but then returns to haunt his classmates in his past-life as a ghost.
The theatre uses a variety of tricks to shock and amaze the audience including the 'black-out technique' which means shutting down all the lights in theatre in the middle of a scene.
Around 50 performers are involved in the production of this play with many, including Imas, following in their parent's footsteps by taking to the stage.
All of the actors in Miss Tjitjih theatre group treat each other like families. Their children and grandchildren have also joined the cast and shared the stage with the elders. Most of the actors have stayed with us for a long time, says Imas.
Bringing through fresh talent is something crucial to the theatre's longevity.
Over the years, Miss Tjitjih has routinely recruited young actors in their 20s and 30s to train up with more experienced members of cast.
But lack of popularity in traditional theatre has forced the group to encourage other family members to join, like 22-year-old Sri Ayu Winati who joined the cast in 2007.
Winati's father is a senior musician at Miss Tjitjih.
In the beginning, it was quite hard for me to act alongside the senior actors. But after going through a lot of training and appearing in many plays, I am getting better at what I do on stage, says Winati.
In its glory days, Miss Tjitjih performed nightly shows in front of a packed-out audiences, with plays sometimes running for weeks.
But today, the theatre group is barely surviving.
They now perform plays just twice a month and - on a good day - attract around 50 people to each show.
Luckily, the city's council has stepped in to save what many see as part of Jakarta's cultural heritage.
The move is popular among art experts in the city.
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