Class : 3EB17
First street was named Grote Postweg (Post Road) or
popularly known as Jalan Daendels. Length of the road on the north side of
Anyer on Java's west end to Panarukan in the East end, with a total length of
approximately 1000 km, the longest in the world at that time. If it had been
there, this way certainly go in the Guinness Book of Records! Both of speed and
spectacular project completion. Construction of this road casualties are
numerous, but judged by the Indonesian historians now as important progress.
Thanks to this road in the remote parts of Java to be easily accomplished in a
matter of days, not weeks of again. When Daendels arrived in Java, he
immediately decided to build transportation lines along the northern part of
Java, in order to protect important island under Dutch rule from British
attack. With the way the Dutch troops will be mobilized very quickly.
Deandels roading then
do it in two stages, the first stage is the construction of roads to open shaft
Batavia - Banten in 1808, at that time Daendels focuses its activities on the
development of two ports in the north (peacock) and the south (Ujung Kulon).
This path through the coastline of Batavia towards Carita, Caringin,
penetrating Mount Pulosari, Jiput, Menes, Pandeglang, Lebak up Jasinga (Bogor).
The second phase began in 1809, from Anyer through Pandeglang forked road
toward Attack (north) and the Valley (south). Of Serang, next to the Tangerang,
Jakarta, Bekasi, Bogor, Puncak, Cianjur, Bandung, Sumedang, Cirebon to
Panarukan, along the northern coast of Java. The road is called the road the
main road or path protocol, but it does not mean that there is no other way
branches are bypassed by Daendels.
