Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum

Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum is one of 62 museums in the Capital, as a precious legacy of the late President Suharto whose collections are mostly gifts from state officials, politicians and businessmen, while he was still in power and prevail in this country. Perhaps there will be no president can touch it. Museum which has the grandeur of the building with a volume shape land area and buildings are quite ideal for a museum, occupying an area with an area of ​​20 ha and 2.5 ha. building area it is possible to explore the maximum a museum. As well as the buildings are arranged with a modern concept, which is based on the repertoire of Javanese culture is a reflection of the desire of the initiators is Mrs. Tien Soeharto. The presence of the museum is able to attract the attention of the public, considerable attention that we can see from the number of visitors recorded by the statistical data of visitors, making Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum in the category of most visitors, although the trend has decreased the number of visits figure in this second decade.
Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum collection by the amount of not less than 17,000 items are not included in the library collections of the museum library is 5000 books and photo albums of 4500, is a problem, it needs serious handling and required qualified human resources in a considerable scale, of course, this is a separate issue.

The idea to build Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum come from the late Mrs Tien Soeharto who have intentions want to share the excitement with the general public, or rather want the public to have the opportunity to participate see objects that are very valuable, the dream was never for them to have it ,
A noble idea, because then the public can easily enjoy the collection is quite remarkable that without the need to spend large sums of money to buy and then store them dizzy. Just pay a very low admission visitors can feel the excitement when he saw it.
The museum is rather far from the parking lot, and the vehicles are provided for visitors to shuttle to the museum. Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum building that resembles a cone-shaped rice cone in Javanese tradition was built on a land area of ​​19.7 hectares with a total area of ​​25.095m2 building.
Starting from 1984 Ibu Tien Soeharto wishes to build a container that can hold and store and care for a wide variety of souvenirs appreciation awards were given from various parties to Bp. Suharto, at the time he manjabat as President of the Second Republic of Indonesia.
Souvenirs such as rope expression of friendship from various countries, as well as gift given from friends, relatives or ordinary people. Therefore Ibu Tien Soeharto wanted to create a container in the form of a museum which serves as a collector, caring, research and documentation of the entire gift or award. However, the museum that will be built are of course also has a function as evidence of the historical existence of the role and the involvement of Pak Harto struggle for the trip of Indonesia since the seize, enforce, defend and fill kemedekaan.

The idea of ​​establishing a museum with the cone concept disampaiikan to Ir. Franky du Ville, IAI to prepare architectures for 3 years, which in the end on December 26, 1987 the laying of the first stone of Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum starts, the construction lasted for 5 years from 1987 sd 1992. selanjutnnya process is structuring the collection, which lasted for approximately eight (8) months, starting from the month of December 1992 and up to August 1993.
Museum building with the shape of the cone is a choice, based on the concept of building a repertoire of Javanese culture is a representation of Pak Harto as an expression of gratitude to God Almighty and thanks to all the people of Indonesia who have given support to Pak Harto for the nation pengabdianya Indonesia. Selection of the building with cone concept is also a reflection of Soeharto as a personal Java, with some of the symbols and the selection of the collection and layout is very organized through the arrangement of exhibition space.

After going through a long process Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum on August 23, 1993 was inaugurated by Bp. Suharto President of Indonesia.
Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum terleak in the Taman Mini I East Jakarta, precisely in front of the complex of Taman Mini Indonesia Indah

Sights when entering the main area Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum by two statues of kepeng Balinese dancers, as well as the statue of Mrs. Tien Soeharto. Museum Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Suharto inaugurated on August 23, 1993, coinciding with the commemoration of the 70th anniversary Tien Soeharto, three years before his death in 1996.
A delicate carvings depicting forest dwellers in large wooden seen standing upright in the main room of the museum. In the New Order era was relatively difficult to obtain high-quality wood with a very large size, because at that time lasted massive forest exploitation.

Teak traders can reap enormous, especially when building a house officials were very generous with his money. When the economic crisis as the collapse of the New Order, the Indonesian wood of high quality become a lucrative export trade because the price is very cheap for dollar owners.

A covered bowl made of silver and elephant statues made of wood overlaid with miniature ivory original silver. Many valuable items made of silver and ivory in Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum. There is also a collection of silver statue Malay dancer, is given by economic adviser who comes from Malaysia.

There Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum collection in the form of intricate and beautiful miniature boats made of silver and sculpture collection of anchors and China, as well as a variety of precious objects made of crystal truly compelling and high value. People with money are not limited too might never think to have it.

Other collections are birds porcelain from Herend - Hungary, Bohemia - Czechoslovakia, Guiseppe Cherato and Capodimonte - Italy, Kaiser - Germany, as well as BNR - Spain. Also Langlang Buana, by I Wayan Asin of Bali, wear rubber tree roots 100 years old which took 16 months to make.

Farmer with a buffalo statue gilded in Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum, which reminds me of the village. There is also a horse sculpture from China, bronze horse statue of Juana, and the Nine Dragon Boat Chinese Empire miniature boats made of jade Nephrite origin Xinjiang province, China.

What is equally interesting is the carving of Ravana battle opponents Jatayu I Ketut Modern works of Bali made of tree Johar. Still from Bali, there are works of Dewa Made Windia (Peliatan, Ubud) in the form of a group of statues of kepeng. Kepeng ancient currency is still used in religious rituals in Bali.

Furthermore, there are carvings that tell the story of Nawa Sanga, or Nine Gods in the Hindu protector guarding 9 cardinal directions. They are Brahma (South), Vishnu (north), Shiva (Center), Iswara (East), Mahadeva (West), Sambhu (Northeast), Maheswara (Southeast), Rudra (Northwestern) and Sangkara (Southwestern).

On the second floor Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum can be found a collection of Rangda epitome of evil forces, Barong Ket (Keket) the symbol of the power of good, and Celuluk another emblem evil forces that are created by I Wayan Raka of Bali. Collections on the second floor and there is not much compared to the existing semengesankan on the first floor.

Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum is a museum tour in Jakarta, which is very interesting to visit, let alone its location is very close to this area. So many very valuable collection of objects that are stored there, which is difficult for others to gather in one place, let alone have it.