Lets Get Travel!: Gedung Sate : Bandung

July 27, 1920. 90 years ago, performed the groundbreaking of the construction project in Bandung Gedung Sate. When completed four years later, the building soon became one of the grandest buildings in the Netherlands Indies, and until now the most prominent landmarks of the city of Bandung. Laying the first stone building carried out by Miss Johanna Catherina Coops, eldest daughter of the mayor of Bandung B. Coops, and Miss Petronella Roelofsen, representing the Governor-General of Batavia.
This building is designed architect Ir J. Berger from Landsgeboundienst, office buildings, construction of the Netherlands government. It takes power to 2,000 workers. Among the thousands of workers, there are approximately 150 Chinese Konghu or Cantonese, a carpenter and a skilled stone carver in his country. Dutch architect, Dr. Hendrik Petrus Berlage, mentions that Gedung Sate complex design along with the Central Office of Civil Government Agencies Dutch East Indies in Bandung is a masterpiece. While Coor Passchier and Jan Wittenberg, two Dutch architects who inventory the colonial buildings in Bandung, Gedung Sate mention as graceful as a stunning monumental building, and has a unique architectural style, and gigantic.

Sate building itself is actually only a small part, or approximately 5% of the "Office Center Complex Insatansi Civil Government" Dutch East Indies in Bandung occupying an area of 27,000 square meters North. By residents of former "Gedong Sate" named "Gedong Bebe" which later became more popular with "Gedung Sate" because at the top of the tower building there is a "skewer" with 6 water guava fruit-shaped ornaments.

What is now known as Gedung Sate building originally intended as the Central Government or Gouvernments Bedrijven (GB) wheelbase straight into the middle of Mount Tangkuban Perahu.

Bedrijven Gouvernments called because the building was originally intended as the center of the Dutch East Indies colonial administration as well as the office of Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Construction of the building made possible after the Dutch East Indies government took the decision to move the administrative center of the Dutch East Indies from Batavia to Bandung.

The decision to make Bandung as the capital of the Dutch East Indies government was taken in 1916. Options were taken by Koninkelijk der Nederlanden (Netherlands) who has conducted several studies in other areas, particularly in Java. The study was prompted by the results of research conducted by HF Tillema, an environmental health expert, who found that that the cities of the north coast of Java island less healthy state. Met by the marsh vulnerable diseases. Hawanya hot and humid, a result of difficult breathing, sweating, makes the body tired.

Options also fell into the Bandung which is geographically located in a mountainous area with cool air and more fresh. The decision was taken during the administration of Governor-General van Limburg Stirum.

In place of this reason, in the first months of independence, there was a great battle between the Republicans who want to preserving this building from the advancing Allied troops reinforced by Gurkha soldiers. Not only that Sate Building was once also used as the central government during the reign of the State Pasundan RIS.

Gedung Sate is not only an authentic proof of the acts of the city of Bandung in the constellation of colonial life. Sate the building had also become the locus where independence is celebrated with patriotic at the same time there is also a government that once stuck to the idea of federalism in the embodiments Indonesia.Jika Gedung Sate today not only become the West Java governor's office, but also a landmark in Bandung, Gedung Sate receive a special status that it has become entitled.

Source: indonesiamenggugat.blogspot.com with some adjustments