Gedung Arsip Nasional.Jakarta,Indonesia

Gajah Mada in the street so crowded with shops and storey buildings which lie to each other as if to leave no space at all, there is a significant building. The building has a very large yard, stood steadfast with the style of Renaissance architecture and elegant artistik.Memasuki gate, we will pass the road to the main building decorated with small stones red. In the middle of the page there is a small pond containing a lotus flower surrounded by plants. The building was named the National Archives Building. The building was built in 1760 by Reiner de Klerk (1710-1750), in addition to being the architect of this building Reiner de Klerk was also noted as governor general of East India Company in 1777. The soil is very spacious, with a width of 57 M and 164 M long, but once the land is more broadly owned up to the river is Krukut. Houses de Klerk in the past couple of times to move the ownership, so that in the 19th century, turned into an orphanage. At that time the building began abandoned because of lack of funds for repairs. Consequently in the year 1900 there were plans for dismantling the house. Batavia Society for Arts and Sciences and then lobbied the Dutch East Indies government to buy a house De Klerk. They succeeded and the building became the Department of Mines. In 1925 the Dutch Government implement the first major restoration in the 20th century the De Klerk's house and after the building was used as the archives until 1992 when the last file was moved to new buildings in the National Archives Ampera Road. Apparently, despite being not save the file, the name of this building remains the National Archives building. Then in 1995 the Dutch entrepreneurs in Indonesia to raise funds for the restoration of De Klerk's house which was in disrepair again, as a birthday gift to 50th Independence from Dutch Indonesia to the Indonesian people. The restoration was completed in late 1998. Building Museum National Archives U-shaped with an additional building at the back. 2-storey main building, built with red brick with a high roof. Sketch plan of the building reflects the large house and classic with main axis west-east and the second axis north-south. The ground floor area. High main door decorated with a beautiful ventilation holes on top. On the floor of the governor-general is always receiving guests. Here are displayed some relic from the era such as the Dutch cabinet, safe, and desk chair, a collection of weapons. On this floor we saw a similar picture tiles with what we found in the palace Kasepuhan Cirebon. Namely ceramic stories contained in the Bible. On this floor there is a small staircase leading to first floor, which is a more private place. At the end of the stairs look beautiful decoration. On the second floor there are several large rooms, ranging from the dining room (which is used in Hillary Clinton entertained for dinner during a visit to Indonesia), lukisan2 world map, map of Batavia, bedroom Reiner de Klerk, complete with bed. The building beside the main building used as administration offices that manage personal business governor-general. While there are additional buildings higher once used as a house slave and as a place of storage of goods. In this building on display several objects related to the history of this building, renovation history, etc.. Lay in the back yard with green grass flanked left and right beside the old cannon. In halamam have bells, bells supposedly called slavery, because it is used to wake up the slaves to start work. From the information we can, this building had flooded several times due to floods drainage problems, and placement of the red stone as the stone streets aspalnya intended to substitute for the absorption of water into the soil can be better. Because of this building has an antique design and elegant, has a large backyard, and also easy to reach because it was in the downtown building is often used as a place to hold events