The Harmoni building

On Friday, March 20 2009 | 14:14 of WIB KOMPAS.com — entered the Harmony region, beyond bridge, the pedestrian and the motor vehicles driver still could gaze at the Hermes Statue. The statue was on the left, from the side of Street Hayam Wuruk, and definitely on the right from the side of was the reverse. The statue that was made from this bronze have the shape of the man's noose with the head and the eyes gaze at above, now the right hands as pointing to sky. In mitologi Greece, Dewa Hermes was depicted as the god of the patron of the traders. The Romawi nation named the God Hermes as the God Mercurius. The statue that already dozens of years adhered to the Harmony bridge could disappear in a round in August, almost in the last 10 years.After finally was found again, the Special Capital District Provincial Government decided to make the replica of this statue. The Hermes statue that was original was it was estimated made in 1900-an, afterwards was installed in the page in the Museum of Sejarah Jakarta (MSJ) during 2000, as the attraction of the addition for this museum, definitely, whereas the replica of the statue was installed in Harmony bridge. Mentioned Harmoni certainly, necessarily, not only the Hermes Statue that was the signal. There had stood the Harmoni Building, that was established in 1810. The place building of the party of the Dutch resident was demolished in March in the last 24 years. The location of the Harmonie Building, like that was written in the wall on the face part of the building, previously was in the corner of Street Veteran and Street Majapahit. Currently the second-hand land the building became part of the land parked the Secretariat of the Country In the history note, the Harmony building was mentioned was the gathered place of the Dutch East Indies community. The founding of the building was pioneered by Reinier de the Clerk in 1776. The building stood in Street Pintu Besar Selatan. However, because the region was increasingly dirty, by Daendels the building was moved to the south. Yes in the corner of Street Veteran and Street Majapahit so afterwards the building was just erected. The hotel Des Indes was the other signal that strengthened the Harmony as the busy region. This hotel was whipped by the development in 1971. The hotel that his location not far from this Harmoni Building was in Street Gajah Mada. In this location afterwards stood the Envoy Merlin, the shopping centre. The hotel Des Indes official operated in 1856 in the land that still belonging to Reiner de the Clerk. The history also recorded, the Hotel Des Indes could be equated with the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. If the hotel in Singapore still was standing firm and became the prestigious luxurious hotel, then the Hotel Des Indes has been did not have results. Not there is