City Hall

City Hall is located at Jalan Merdeka Selatan and built in 19th century with Tuscan architecture style. At first it was used for residence of mayor and also used as the office for administrational activities of Jakarta. Later it was fully used as the City Hall, after the official residence of the mayor was finally built at Jalan Suropati No. 7, Central Jakarta. During the administration of mayor Soediro, the office of the City Hall was expanded by the construction of building No. 8. It means that the City Hall of DKI Jakarta in 1945 occupied two buildings named Jalan Merdeka Selatan 8-9.

The administrational and organizational activities of Jakarta Government have been steadily growing especially since the birth of the New Order, making the activities of administration impossible to be carried out in these two buildings. Therefore it was necessary to build another building for expanding the City Hall. During the administration of Governor Ali Sadikin, the City Hall was expanded by constructing new building with modern architecture, equipped with complete office facilities. The second construction was built from 1968 to 1972.

"Jakarta HERITAGE book (Departemen Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata)"