History of Braga

Jalan Braga is the name of a main road in the city of Bandung, Indonesia. The street was known since the Dutch-Indies government. To date, the name of the road is still maintained as one of the maskot tourism and the city formerly known as Parijs van Java.

Environment

On the right side of Jalan Braga left there with a shopping complex architecture and governance of the city that still retains the characteristics of architecture in the old Dutch East Indies. The layout of shops in the existing models in Europe in accordance with the development of the city at that time (1920 to 1940-an) as a significant mode of the city as well as the famed city of Paris at the time. Among the shops that still maintain the characteristic architecture is a long shopping Sarinah, Apotek Kimia Farma and Gedung Merdeka (Africa, Asia House is the building that used to Societeit Concordia). Model layout of buildings and road building shops and offices located in Jalan Braga is also visible on the model of other roads in the vicinity of Jalan Braga as Suniaraja Road (formerly known as Parapatan Pump Road) and Jalan Pos Besar (Postweg), which was built by the Governor General Herman Willem Daendels in the year 1811, in front of Gedung Merdeka.

History

Jalan Braga is originally a small road in front of the settlement is deserted road, so called because it is quite prone Culik, also known as Jalan Pedati (Pedatiweg) in the year 1900-an. Jalan Braga became crowded because so many business-business, especially berkebangsaan Netherlands established shops, bars and entertainment venues in the area such as shops Onderling Belang. Then in the decade from 1920 to 1930-an appear shops and boutiques (boutique) model clothes that take in the city of Paris, France at that time the direction is the model clothes in the world. Concordia Societeit Dibangunnya building that is used for meeting the residents Bandung, especially among wealthy master-master, the Hotel Savoy Homann, office buildings and others in several blocks around the streets this also increase the notoriety and the way this crowd.

But the worst is the emergence of entertainment-nightlife and red light area (area of poor-poor) in this area that make Braga Street is known tourist attraction. Where the term of the city as the city began to flower known. So that the community organization of Bandung at that time to make leaflets and announcements that "The Tuan-tuan Tourists should not visit Bandung when the wife does not take or leave the wife at home."

In some regions and cities that stand as well as developing the Dutch East Indies, also known the name of the street known as Jalan Braga Bandung as Kayoetangan Road in the city of Malang is also a famed be the Tourists mainly from the Netherlands also Jalan Malioboro in Yogyakarta and several road in Jakarta. But unfortunately the original name of this street is not maintained or changed from previous name which is considered as a popular road in the city of Malang Kayoetangan changed to Jalan Basuki Rahmat.