Gedung Agung - Yogyakarta : Historic Buildings At Dutch Colonial Era

Gedung Agung, that's another name from the Presidential Palace of Yogyakarta which have the high historical value for the nation's independence Indonesia. Construction begun in 1825, stands on 4.2 hectares of land is located opposite the former Fort Vredeburg, VOC fort on the sidewalk General Ahmad Yani street - Yogyakarta.

Entering the main gate, will be greeted by a giant statue guards the door "Dwarapala" 2 cm tall arising from a monastery temple Kalasan. An andesite stone monument called "Dagoba" located on the lawn right in front of the palace front porch, tingginga 3.5 meters from a village in the area Cupuwatu Prambanan. This monument symbolizes the religious harmony in the form of "Linga" as a symbol of Shiva and Hindus as a symbol of the Buddhist Stupa. Besides, in this palace areas are 62 statues of Buddha, Shiva and others are scattered in the corners of the page.

This palace consisted of several large rooms. Garuda Room is a large room as a formal space for receiving guests, is located right in the middle of the main building, seven-foot-high room with a three-story kandelier lighting circuits, four old mirror hanging and a red carpet laid out in the middle of an official confirmed the impression from this room. This first President of Indonesia room held formal meetings and discussions with Heads of State or Heads of Government who became his guest.


Soedirman room is a lot of room to play a role in history because this is where Indonesian heroes. General Sudirman guerrilla goodbye when leaving and returning from his guerrilla report to the President and Vice President. In this room and also installed a statue of General Sudirman and is now used for the living room of the guests is located on the right side of the Garuda Room

Next is the living room of Diponegoro was used to seat the guests on special occasions a general nature. Room located on the left Garuda, was installed diruangan Diponegoro painting to commemorate the history kepahlawanannya.Kemudian VVIP terlentak Dining room between Garuda Room with Art Space. The atmosphere is warm room with a red carpet from Esfahan, installed around the old paintings of the palace collection, and the curtain that hung doors matching the carpet color decorated with teak wood frame Jepara carving adds the familiar atmosphere of this room.

Art space is used for art performances when visiting state guests to Yogyakarta. It also is used to display items of traditional crafts such as batik, leather, ceramics, silver and other handicraft industry results. State House began construction in October 1980, a new building within the Presidential Palace of Yogyakarta. The purpose of this building was built for lodging the State Guest rombombongan who visit and spend the night at the Palace of Yogyakarta.

Furthermore, Sono Arts Building located south of the Great House, a building that once belonged to the Ministry of Information was given RI of him to the Court House on September 25, 1995. By managing the Great House was renovated and diremikan users in 1998. This building serves as a place penyelenggraan ceremonial occasions and designed specifically for building information and storage of goods palace collection of various guests who visit the country.