Sarinah Building

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Sarinah Building
Gedung Sarinah
Sarinah.svg
Sarinah Building post-renovation.jpg
Sarinah Department Store after its renovation
Sarinah Building
Record height
Tallest in Indonesia from 1962 to 1967 [I]
Preceded byposition created
Surpassed by Wisma Nusantara
General information
TypeCommercial
Architectural styleInternational style, Postmodernism
AddressJalan M. H. Thamrin No. 11
Gondangdia, Menteng, Central Jakarta, Indonesia
Coordinates 6°11′15″S106°49′26″E / 6.187587°S 106.823829°E / -6.187587; 106.823829
OpenedAugust 1966 (renovated in 2020-2022)
Owner Sarinah
Design and construction
Architecture firm
Developer
Main contractorObayashi Corporation
Other information
Public transit access TransJakarta BRT Corridor 1 Icon.png Transjakarta BRT Route 6A Icon.png Transjakarta BRT Route 6B Icon.png M.H. Thamrin
Website
www.sarinah.co.id

Sarinah Building (Indonesian : Gedung Sarinah) is a 74-metre tall 15-floor department store in Gondangdia, Menteng, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. It was the first skyscraper to be built in Jakarta.

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Sarinah is located at the intersection of Jalan Kyai Haji Wahid Hasyim and Jalan M. H. Thamrin. It was Jakarta's first modern department store, famous for having Indonesia's first escalators (installed by Hitachi), for being air-conditioned and for having electronic cash registers. [1]

History

The building prior to renovation Jakarta Sarinah.JPG
The building prior to renovation

PT Department Store Indonesia "Sarinah" (former company name of Sarinah) first piled the foundation of Sarinah building on 23 April 1963. [2] The building was built by Obayashi Corporation and state-owned construction company Adhi Karya, using Japanese war reparation funds. [3] [4] The building was handed over to Sarinah on 22 December 1965, [2] coinciding with Mother's Day, and was inaugurated on 15 August 1966.

In the 1990s, after leasing out some of its space to McDonald's (its first branch in Indonesia) and Hard Rock Cafe (which later moved to Pacific Place Jakarta), Sarinah managed to rejuvenate itself as a popular place for young people. [1]

Expansion

Two forty-one story towers are planned to be built in the area to complement the existing shopping center. The new towers will house high end restaurants; offices; and venues for meetings, conferences, and exhibition halls. The existing building will undergo major renovations to restore the originality of the building. The expansion project is expected to start by July 2020 and is projected to be completed in its entirety by mid-2022. [5]

For the renovation to be carried out on the existing building, the management ordered all tenants of to close in a 30 April 2020 memo. Notably the closing of the first McDonald's in Indonesia at the Sarinah location on 10 May 2020 attracted a considerable crowd and legal rebuke for violation of social distancing laws in effect for the endless COVID-19 pandemic at the time. [6] [7]

After completion of renovations on the existing building, it was opened to public on 22 March, 2022. [8]

2016 terrorist incident

On 14 January 2016, multiple explosions and gunfire occurred near Sarinah. [9] The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility. [10] 8 people were killed, 4 civilians and all 4 attackers. [11]

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