Bosscha Observatory



Bosscha Observatory is a research institution under the auspices of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bandung Institute of Technology (FMIPA ITB). Until now, Bosscha Observatory is the only major observatory in Indonesia. Together with the Astronomy Study Program, FMIPA ITB, the Bosscha Observatory is the center of research, education, and development of Astronomy in Indonesia.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Package Tour 01 | The Trail of Multatuli

Image
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tulī, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors. Background In 1830 the Netherlands introduced the Culture System in an attempt to optimize the proceeds from the colonies. Farmers in the Dutch East Indies, especially in Java, had to plant one fifth of their land with predetermined products from that moment on. The proceeds then went to the government. This Culture System was very lucrative for the Netherlands. The tax system was designed by Johannes van den Bosch, the then governor-general of the Dutch East Indies who is best known in the Netherlands thanks to the Society of Benevolence he founded. His Cultural System replaced the so-called Land ...
Read more

Postal Museum Indonesia

Image
The Indonesian Postal Museum was established since the Dutch East Indies period, known as  Postal Telegraph and Telephone (PTT) . In 1931 the PTT Museum opened in the lower right wing of the PTT Head Office Building, Jalan Cilaki, number 55, Bandung, (now number 73). This building is actually the east wing of the central government building of West Java Province which is more famous for Gedung Sate . September 27, 1983, the Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications inaugurated PTT to become the Pos Indonesia Museum .
Read more

Bandung

Bandung is more than just culinary delights, coffee shops , malls , or distro fashion outlets . It's a city full of history , art deco buildings , plenty of  museums , the only  astronomical observatory in Indonesia, agriculture and plantation , creative industry , and more ! Travel expands education in a way that textbooks cannot. The best educational trips for kids depend on your outlook and a great destination. And Bandung is one of the unique and unexplored destination from the educational point of view. A tour could start from Jakarta (history), proceed to Bogor (botanical garden). and further to Bandung. One of our featured tour is combined with a Coffee Educational Tour ( The Trail of Multatuli ) , getting students familiarize about coffee industry, from A to Z. Coffee may be not originated in Indonesia, but the Dutch brought coffee from Africa or Middle East, and cultivated coffee in Indonesia. From here they brought and introduced coffee to Europe, which started...
Read more