Bandung city hall park is a famous public park located in the city of Bandung, South of Indonesia. The park has a strategic location near major streets in the city. The area has a long history, originally containing a coffee warehouse built in 1819. This was later demolished and replaced with the Bandung city hall building in 1927. The building has since been expanded. The park is composed of three sections - Dewi Sartika park which features a gazebo and statue, Badak park centered around a rhino statue, and Merpati park known for its maze and pigeon statues.

2. Bandung city hall park or taman balai kota bandung is a famous public park
in Bandung. This park is located on the south of Bandung. This park
wins a point for its strategic location, with the merdeka street on the
east part, wastukencana street on the west, and perintis kemerdekaan
street on the south.

3. HISTORY
Balaikota building is one of the oldest building in Bandung city. Before this building
was built, in this location there were a coffee storehouse (“koffie pakhuis”) owned
by Adries de Wilde (1781-1865). He was a country-squire and Priangan Resident
Assistant in 1812.
The coffee warehouse was built in 1819 when coffee plantation in Priangan blossom on
18th century. That’s coffee warehouse is the one of eight a new wall building in
Bandung. In 1923, that’s building was submitted to Netherlands. In 1927, that’s
building was broken down. As a replacement, Balaikota building was built and
designed by an architect, EH de Roo. The establishment of this city hall related
with Bandung’s status as a township since 1906. This rectangular building is
located not far from Jalan Braga which was economy activities centre in that
period. Some of support public building had been already built around Balaikota,
there were Javasche Bank (1909), Katedral (1921) and Bethel Church/Gereja Bethel
(1925).
As the result of the development of Bandung city, in 1935 Balaikota had been enlarged
by add the new building behind it. Eh de Roo still became the architect of the new
building. He designed the new building with art deco style with the result that the
new building had been seen more modern than the first building. This new building
had been built faced Pieter Sijthoffpark, which is we know this time as Taman Dewi
Sartika. The shape of the roof, which looks flat, make this building called as
Gedung Papak.

4. COMPOSITION OF BANDUNG CITY HALL PARK
• dewi sartika park
This park is located on the south parts of the Bandung city hall park. This
portion of the park is 4390 (four thousand three hunded and ninety) meters
square wide and it have a lot of attractions. Some of them are the gazebo,
dewi sartika statue, and the infamous bandros that stands for bandung tour
on bus. This bus will take you around bandung for an affordable price.

5. • badak park
This second park that is located on the south isn’t as large as the first one.
It is only 870 meters square. their iconic symbol is a rhino statue which is
located right in the middle of the park, surrounded by fountains and mini
pools for kids to play in.

6. • Merpati park
Last one is the least popular part of the park. It is called the merpati park. If
you see a mini labyrith with a huge banyan tree, surrounded by pigeon
statues then you are at the right place. This park is named merpati park
because at the time of the inaguration, there were atleast 800 pigeons flying
around the park.