Jakarta Tower

History and current development

Menara Jakarta is a big project that began in the reign of President Suharto initiated since 1995. The tower was intended to be one of the world's tallest building.

Design contest (1996-1997)

Construction of the tower that was originally developed by a trio of big business, namely Sudwikatmono, Prajogo Pangestu, and Henry Pribadi, through Indocitra Graha PT Bawana. The cost is estimated around 400 million U.S. dollars (at that time was still about Rp 900 billion).

Initially, Jakarta Tower will be built in the Kuningan area, but Soerjadi Soedirdja, Governor of DKI Jakarta at that time, did not agree, and propose to build in the Kemayoran area of growth is still difficult.

Companies of international caliber architectural design are invited to participate in an architectural design competition for the building. Conditions contest is that the building must contain a symbol of the Trilogy Development, Pancasila, and August 17 (Independence Day of the Republic of Indonesia). Design and model of the tower was shown to the Secretary of State (then) Moerdiono as Chairman of Board of Management and Development in Bandar Baru Kemayoran the State Secretariat.

In 1996, the competition was won by Murphi / Iohn of the United States. It's just that, because this design was too expensive to develop, the government chose the design of the two winners of the East Chine Architecture Design & Research Institute (ECADI), who also built Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower in China. ECADI design was chosen because the judges thought the design was simple and nuanced Asia.

The inauguration of the construction done in 1997 by the Governor of Jakarta Soerjadi Soedirdja and State Secretary Moerdiono after approval by President Suharto at the Bina Graha, Jakarta. President Suharto suggested that the name was changed to Jakarta Tower Tower Trilogy.

Trilogy Tower development implemented in 1997. Because the enlarged budget, developers began looking for an injection of funds from foreign investors. The total funds needed to be around 560 million U.S. dollars (at that time approximately USD 1.2 trillion). Targeted foreigners have some shares and partly owned by the developer in the country.
[edit] Economic Crisis (1997)

When the economic crisis in Asia in 1997, Indonesian property industry fell so many construction projects are delayed or canceled, including the Trilogy Tower. With the termination of this tower construction, concrete, concrete that had been left mangkrak planted and the area became a large puddle of water.
[edit] Continuation of Jakarta Tower project (started 2003)

After the Indonesian economy began to rise again, the Government of Jakarta remains will continue building the tower with the re Jakarta Tower name. Menara Jakarta was continued in 2003 through a new consortium, namely PT Persada Japa Pamudja (PJP) that consists of large national employers.

The inauguration of the projected construction of the tower became the world's tallest tower was made by Minister of State Secretary (minister) Bambang KESOWO and Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso on April 15, 2004.

According to President Commissioner of PT Prasada Japa Pamudja (the developer of the Tower now Jakarta), namely Abraham Alex Tanuseputra, this tower will be a great project and an ability to show the existence and civilization of the Indonesian people in order to be able to par with other nations in the world, and was built by the sons and daughters Indonesian nation.

Construction of the tower will be divided into two parts. The first part of the building of the 17th floor of the podium is planned for completion in 2008/2009. The second part is the tower that predicted the development would be completed in 2010-2011.

Draft

Jakarta Tower was designed and supervised by the designer construction Wangsadinata Wiratman Prof DR.

Vision development

Jakarta Tower project director, said Roesdiman Soegiarso, Jakarta Tower development vision is "Lifestyle Center".

According to him, "Lifestyle Center" is a dream and the concept of prioritizing Jakarta Tower as a place that gives a zest for life, development and technology centers, entertainment, education, tourism and trade to meet the 21st century.

Dimension tower

Menara Jakarta

Jakarta Tower will be built in an area of 306,810 square meters. The building itself will be an area of 40,550 square meters with 558 meters high.

As originally designed in 1997, in this new development, the tower still has three legs that will rise to a height of 500 meters. Each cylindrical feet, 13.2 meters in diameter. Two of them contain each of the three elevators at the speed of 7 meters per second. The third leg of the eight special elevators for visitors. In this building there are 10 units of elevators / lifts.

In addition, at the bottom, the tower was tied again with a concrete ring with a diameter of 40 meters 15 meters high. For more stabilized, tower foundations embedded with a diameter of 80 meters to 58 meters deep underground.

According to the developer, Menara Jakarta will absorb 20,000 more workers during construction, and more than 40,000 workers after the building functional.

Facilities

Menara Jakarta plans will be equipped with facilities:

* Parking area of 144,000 square meters
* Building 17th floor podium level.
* Elevator reaches the top of the tower
* Restaurant spin
* Big Mal
* Cafe
* Amusement park
* Museum of the history of Indonesia
* Hotel
* Multi-purpose room / conference that can accommodate ten thousand visitors
* Office spaces covering 8000 square meters
* Exhibition Center
* Education and Training Center
* Multimedia Center with a radio transmitter and television
* Trade and business center
* Sports Center

It is estimated, as many as 4-6 million visitors each year will visit the Tower of Jakarta.

Other Facts

If the tower was completed in 2010 or 2011, with a height of 558 meters, he will be building a tower (but not the building) the highest in the world, defeated the altitude:

* Canadian National Tower (553 meters), Toronto, Canada
* Ostankino Tower (540 meters), Moscow, Russia
* Oriental Pearl Tower (468 meters), Shanghai, China, and
* Petronas Twin Towers (452 meters), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

For comparison, high Tugu Monas Jakarta is only 137 meters. Thus, Jakarta Tower will have a height of about 4 times higher Monas.

After going through the entire period of construction, Jakarta Tower will be the tallest building in the southern hemisphere. This record currently held by Q1 residential buildings with a height of 344 meters is located in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia.

Cost

Megaproyek construction cost is estimated at around USD 1.4 trillion at the beginning and swollen to almost USD 2.7 trillion, after rising world steel prices.

According to the director of PT Prasada Japa Pamudja, Sangeroki Ferry, the parties involved in this project is "more than a hundred companies and individuals". He said that the project is funded through three channels: the participation of capital (USD 400 billion) syndicated loan (USD $ 600-800 billion), and the sale of pre-project (about USD 1.3 trillion).

According to the Jakarta Tower designer, Prof. Dr. Wiratman Wangsadinata, in the year 2009 the estimated cost needed to build the tower was reached Rp 5 trillion.

Controversy

Social and economic disparities

In the year 1995-1997, the subject of the Trilogy Tower criticism is primarily a function of funds and the tower in the midst of social and economic inequalities that still runs. Theo Syafei, former Udayana Regional Commander, said, "It's better that big funds are used for the development of eastern Indonesia." Therefore, the tower began also known as "Tower Gaps". The Jakarta Post newspaper called it a "tower of indifference" (tower of ignorance). Several members of Parliament called the project "lighthouse", the naming of projects at the Bung Karno era considered (especially by supporting New Order) as a project to show off to the outside world, without a clear benefit for the people.

Sudwikatmono as the owner of this project at the time, denied if the tower is called the lighthouse project. The reason is, unlike the government built National Monument, the Trilogy Tower is purely made by the private sector. The minister responded Moerdiono about the irony of the social gap with this project only explain the technical benefits to the world of architecture, construction, and the world of radio and television broadcasting. The plan, the top of the tower is going to be pacak radio and television antennas.

Bethany Church

In the current development period (2006-2011), one raised enough controversy about the Tower of Jakarta is that this tower would be Christian Center supported by Bethany Indonesian Church. The problem, President Commissioner of the developer of this project, PT Prasada Japa Pamudja was Abraham Alex Tanuseputra who served as General Chairman of Indonesia Bethany Church Synod. In addition, the project is often referred to as the Tower of Prayer Jakarta or Jakarta Revival Center.