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Penjaringan is a
district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...
of
North Jakarta North Jakarta (; ), abbreviated as Jakut, is one of the five administrative cities (''kota administrasi'') which form Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia. North Jakarta is not self-governed and does not have a city council, hence it is ...
Administrative City,
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
. It is the westernmost district of North Jakarta. Muara Angke Port and the mouth of
Sunda Kelapa Sunda Kelapa () is the old port of Jakarta, located on the estuary of the Ciliwung River. "Sunda Kalapa" ( Sundanese: "Coconut of Sunda") is the original name, and it was the main port of the Sunda Kingdom. The port is situated in Penjaringan D ...
Port are located within Penjaringan. Penjaringan contains the remnants of the original mangrove forest of Jakarta, some of which are protected by the Muara Angke Wildlife Sanctuary. Penjaringan District is criss-crossed with water-draining channels, canals, and water reservoirs to protect the land from sea flooding. The Cengkareng Drain, part of Jakarta's
flood control Flood management or flood control are methods used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. Flooding can be caused by a mix of both natural processes, such as extreme weather upstream, and human changes to waterbodies and ru ...
system, flows to the sea through this bdistrict. Penjaringan District, especially within Penjaringan Administrative Village, contains several historic Dutch colonial buildings such as the remains of the city wall of Batavia and the 17th-century warehouses (now a
Maritime Museum A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navy, navies and the m ...
). The boundaries of Penjaringan District are Jakarta Bay to the north,
Sunda Kelapa Sunda Kelapa () is the old port of Jakarta, located on the estuary of the Ciliwung River. "Sunda Kalapa" ( Sundanese: "Coconut of Sunda") is the original name, and it was the main port of the Sunda Kingdom. The port is situated in Penjaringan D ...
Port to the east, and Kamal Muara Road - Kapuk Raya Road to the south.


History

The coastal area of Penjaringan District is one of the most historic areas in Jakarta. The mouth of the Ciliwung or Liwung River was an important port in West Java. It was used as the main port of the kingdom of
Pakuan Pajajaran Pakuan Pajajaran ( Sundanese: ᮕᮊᮥᮝᮔ᮪ᮕᮏᮏᮛᮔ᮪; known as Dayeuh Pakuan/Pakwan or Pajajaran) was the fortified capital city of Sunda Kingdom. The location roughly corresponds to modern Bogor city in West Java, Indonesia, approxi ...
and Batavia. Around the 16th century, the Muara Angke (a coastal area to the west of old Batavia) was used by the Sultanate of Banten and the
Sultanate of Demak The Demak Sultanate () was a Javanese Muslim state located on Java's north coast in Indonesia, at the site of the present-day city of Demak. A port fief to the Hindu-Buddhist Majapahit kingdom thought to have been founded in the last quarter of ...
as a strategic post to capture the port of
Sunda Kelapa Sunda Kelapa () is the old port of Jakarta, located on the estuary of the Ciliwung River. "Sunda Kalapa" ( Sundanese: "Coconut of Sunda") is the original name, and it was the main port of the Sunda Kingdom. The port is situated in Penjaringan D ...
from the Portuguese. In the 17th century, during the Dutch colonial era, the area that is now Penjaringan Administrative Village was developed into a ship docking area. Warehouses and shipbuilding facilities are built in this area, and some of these 17th-century structures still exist today (such as the now ''Museum Bahari'' and ''Galangan Kapal VOC'', a former trade office built in 1628). In the 18th century, local villages started to appear around the Dutch Batavia. Some of these villages, located within the port of Batavia, are today known as Kampung Luar Batang. Kampung Luar Batang is the location of the Luar Batang Mosque, established in 1739. During the 1970s, because of insufficient capacity and the lack of facilities, a new fishing port called ''Pelabuhan Perikanan Samudera Jakarta (PPSJ)'' (also known as "Jakarta Fishing Port") was created on the west side of Sunda Kelapa Harbor, within Penjaringan District. The feasibility and engineering study was done by Japan International Cooperation Agency from 1973 to 1979. The construction was divided into four phases which began in 1980 and was finished in 2002.


Mangroves

Penjaringan contains some of Jakarta's original
mangrove forest Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones. Mangrove forests grow mainly at tropical and subtropical latitudes because mangrove trees cannot withsta ...
. Some of these mangrove forests are protected by the Muara Angke Wildlife Sanctuary (located at Kapuk Muara Administrative Village). Another protected mangrove forest in the Penjaringan Subdistrict is the privately-owned Angke Kapuk Nature Tourism Park (99.82 ha), which was given by the Jakarta government to PT Murindra Karya Lestari in an attempt to rehabilitate the area back into its original natural state.


Muara Angke marina

On January 5, 2012, the new Muara Angke marina opened to service passenger ships plying routes between the Thousand Islands and the mainland.


Flooding

Being a low plain coastal area, Penjaringan is constantly threatened by flooding from high tide. In Penjaringan Administrative Village itself, a series of plans to reduce flooding has been planned, including settlement relocation, drainage improvement, and the construction of a dike. Research about flooding has been done especially within Penjaringan District. In 2008, seven dikes were installed within the district of Penjaringan to protect the area from increasing levels of sea tide. The dike consists of Muara Baru dike, Muara Angke dike, Luar Batang dike, Pluit Reservoir, Kapuk Muara dike, Pelindo Harbor dike, and Mutiara Beach dike.


Kelurahan (Administrative Village)

The district of Penjaringan is divided into five ''kelurahan'' ("administrative villages"): *Penjaringan - area code 14440 * Pluit - area code 14450 *Pejagalan - area code 14450 *Kapuk Muara - area code 14460 *Kamal Muara - area code 14470


List of important places

*Luar Batang Mosque (established since 1796) *Luar Batang Village, existed since the 17th century. *
Maritime Museum (Indonesia) The Maritime Museum () is located in the old Sunda Kelapa harbor area in Penjaringan Administrative Village, Penjaringan Subdistrict, Jakarta, Indonesia. The museum was inaugurated inside the former Dutch East India Company warehouses. The muse ...
* Muara Angke Wildlife Sanctuary * Muara Angke *
Pantai Indah Kapuk Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK) is an integrated township in northwestern Jakarta, Indonesia; located in parts of Penjaringan, North Jakarta, Kapuk, West Jakarta, and Kosambi, Tangerang, Kosambi, Tangerang Regency. It is one of the most prestigious r ...
housing estates


References

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