Bung Karno Main Stadium (SUGBK)
is a multi-purpose stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, which is part of the sports
complex Bung Karno Stadium.
The stadium is commonly used as
an arena football game international level.
The stadium is named Bung Karno
in honor of Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, who is also a character who
sparked the idea of building this sports complex.
BACKGROUND
Aside from being a place to
exercise, Bung Karno region by various community groups are often used as a
venue for a meeting. In addition to the initial purpose of the stadium
construction, the President also wanted a sports complex built for the Asian
Games IV in 1962 should also serve as the city's lungs and open spaces where
people gather.
A distinctive feature of this
stadium roof is called by the president as a "Gathering Bracelet",
which is a large steel roof construction that form a giant ring and protect the
audience from sun and rain.
Historical Origins of the Bung
Karno Stadium
Bung Karno was built starting
from the President in welcoming the opportunity to offer Indonesia to host the
grand event in the Asian Games, Asian Games IV. Once approved, he immediately
ordered his subordinates to immediately design a modern complex and most
comprehensive sports centers as well as public parks and open green spaces. How
did it come to Senayan used as the construction site? and this development
expense of 4 villages with over 60,000 residents who must leave his hometown.
And at that time
the surge Bung Karno complex was extensive. Vastness and eventually it should
be divided for the construction of government offices and private. On July 21,
1962, the Main Stadium with a capacity of 100 thousand spectators perfectly
built. In early February 1960, precisely on February 8, the first president
Soekarno Ir, (Bung Karno) Main pancangStadion pole plug as the launching of the
construction of the complex Asian Games IV, witnessed by the deputy prime
minister of the Soviet Union, Anastas Mikoyan. Its construction was funded by a
soft loan from the Soviet Union amounted to 12.5 million US dollars which
certainty is obtained on December 23, 1958. There is something special about
this Main Stadium. The distinctive feature of this building is the 'roof
Intersection bracelet' oval. The long axis of the building (north-south) along
354 meters, short axis (east-west) along 325 meters.
The stadium is
surrounded by the outer ring road (athletic tracks) along 920 meters. The
inside there is a football field measuring 105 x 70 meters, following ellipse,
with the long axis of 176.1 meters and 124.2 meters short axis. With a capacity
of about 100,000 people, the stadium that was built in mid-1958 and the
completion of its first phase in the third quarter of 1962 is one of the
largest in the world.
Ahead of the
2007 Asian Cup, to do renovations at the stadium which reduces the capacity of
the stadium into a 88 083 spectators
In order to
de-Soekarnoisasi, the New Order era, the name was changed to the stadium
Senayan Main Stadium.
After the
passing wave of reform in 1998, the name of this stadium is returned to its
original name through Presidential Decree No. 7/2001.
Namely the Bung
Karno Stadium. The stadium administrators are Bung Karno Foundation, which is
still believed to be a complex operator Bung Karno Stadium. In the era of this
Senayan Sports Foundation, there are many irregularities that Geloran region
Bung Karno original extent of 279.1 hectares has been shrunk down to 136.84
hectares (49%) only. 51% of the amount of the 67.52 hectares or about 24.2% of
the area originally used for a variety of government buildings such as the
building of the MPR / DPR, Office of the Forestry Department, Office of the
Ministry of National Education, Building TVRI, Graha Building, Office Keluragan
Stadium, SMU 24, health centers, and restaurants. The rest, which is 26.7% or
74.4 hectares leased or sold to a variety of buildings such as the Hotel
Hilton, complex trade Ratu Plaza, Hotel Mulia, Hotel Atlet Century Park
(formerly Wisma Atlet Senayan), Taman Ria Senayan Youth, Pensions Fairbanks ,
Plaza Senayan and various other commercial buildings.
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