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Bogor is a city in West Java, Indonesia, about 53 km south of Jakarta, famous for its Botanical Gardens, its presidential palace and its frequent rain, which earned it the nickname Rain City. Its top sights are the Bogor Botanical Gardens, Bogor Palace, Bogor Cathedral, Zebaoth Church and the Batutulis Inscription.
In the Middle Ages Bogor was Pakuan Pajajaran, the capital of the Sunda Kingdom. Under Dutch rule it was named Buitenzorg, meaning without worries, and served as the summer residence of the governors-general of the Dutch East Indies, which left the city many classical European buildings. Sundanese culture still dominates the city today.
Bogor had 1,043,070 residents at the 2020 census and hosted the APEC summit of 15 November 1994. The city is the terminus of the KRL Commuterline from Jakarta, and its centre is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
The Bogor Botanical Gardens, or Kebun Raya Bogor, are a botanical garden in the centre of Bogor, Indonesia, next to the presidential palace. Founded in 1817 under the Dutch East Indies, they cover 87 ha with 13,983 kinds of trees and plants and are the oldest botanical garden in Southeast Asia.
Bogor Palace, or Istana Bogor, is one of the seven presidential palaces of Indonesia, in Bogor beside the botanical gardens. It grew from Buitenzorg, a 1745 country retreat of the Dutch governors, and its 28.4 ha park is home to a herd of tame deer; Joko Widodo moved his office here in 2015.
The Olivia Raffles Memorial is a monument in the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Bogor, Indonesia, raised in memory of Olivia Mariamne Raffles, wife of Stamford Raffles, lieutenant-governor of Java. She died at Buitenzorg, as Bogor was then called, on 26 November 1814 and was buried in Batavia.
The Bogor Zoology Museum, or Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, stands next to the main entrance of the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Bogor, Indonesia. Founded in 1894, it holds one of the largest collections of preserved animals in Southeast Asia, and the Komodo dragon was first described here in 1912.
Bogor Cathedral, officially the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the oldest church building of the Bogor Diocese in Bogor, Indonesia. M. Y. D. Claessens began building it in 1896 on land his brother had bought in 1881, the church dates from 1905, and it was damaged in 1945 during the war.
Zebaoth Church is a Protestant church in Bogor, Indonesia, nicknamed the Rooster Church for the rooster on its tower. Governor-General van Limburg Stirum laid its first stone on 30 January 1920 as the Queen Wilhelmina Church, and Dutch was used in its services until 1962.
Hok Tek Bio Temple, also called Vihara Dhanagun, is a Chinese temple in Bogor, Indonesia, that serves Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism and is a protected heritage site of the city. Its name means place of the god's virtue, and it stands at the head of the Chinatown of Jalan Suryakencana.
The Batutulis Inscription is a stone of the Sunda Kingdom dated 1533 at Batutulis in South Bogor, Indonesia, on the site of the old capital Pakuan Pajajaran. King Surawisesa had it carved in Old Sundanese in Kawi script in memory of his father, Sri Baduga Maharaja, and it gave the village its name.
Bogor Station, formerly Buitenzorg Station, is the railway station of Bogor, Indonesia, and the terminus of the KRL Commuterline to Jakarta. The first station opened on 31 January 1873, and the present building with its neoclassical arched front dated 1881 was built by the Staatsspoorwegen.
The Kujang Monument, or Tugu Kujang, is a 25 m obelisk in Bogor, Indonesia, at the junction of Pajajaran and Otto Iskandardinata roads. Built on 4 May 1982 under mayor Achmad Sobana, it is topped by a kujang, the traditional blade of the Sundanese people, and bears the city's arms.
Katulampa Weir is a weir on the Ciliwung River in Katulampa in Bogor, Indonesia, built in 1911 to 1912 to a design by Hendrik van Breen and opened on 11 October 1912. It gives early warning of floods flowing down to Jakarta and irrigates about 5,000 ha, and its total length is 74 m.
The PETA Museum, or Museum Pembela Tanah Air, is a museum in Bogor, Indonesia, honouring the PETA volunteer army formed in 1943, whose training centre was in this building. Opened by President Suharto on 18 December 1995, it has 14 dioramas and statues of Sudirman and Supriyadi.
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