About Glodok Chinatown
Glodok (Chinese: 裹踱刻; pinyin: guǒ duó kè) is an urban village of Taman Sari, West Jakarta, Indonesia. The area has been known as a Pecinan or Chinatown since the Dutch East India Company designated Glodok as a residential area for ethnic Chinese in November 1740, and is considered the biggest in Indonesia.
Glodok (Chinese: 裹踱刻; pinyin: guǒ duó kè) is an urban village of Taman Sari, West Jakarta, Indonesia. The area has been known as a Pecinan or Chinatown since the Dutch East India Company designated Glodok as a residential area for ethnic Chinese in November 1740, and is considered the biggest in Indonesia. The majority of the traders and residents of Glodok are of Chinese descent. Administratively, the area is a kelurahan under the Taman Sari district, West Jakarta.
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