Grogol is an urban

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in the

Grogol Petamburan Grogol Petamburan is a district (Indonesian ''kecamatan'') of West Jakarta, Indonesia, roughly bounded by the West Flood Canal to the east, Angke Canal to the west and to the north, and Jakarta-Merak Tollway to the south. It has an area 1,130 ...

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West Jakarta West Jakarta ( bew, Jakarte Bekulon; id, Jakarta Barat) is one of the five Cities of Indonesia, administrative cities of the Jakarta, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia. West Jakarta is not Self-governance, self-governed and does not hav ...

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. The triangle-shaped administrative village is bounded by the

West Flood Canal The Jakarta Flood Canal ( id, Kanal Banjir Jakarta) refers to two canals that divert floods from rivers around Jakarta instead of going through the city. This first flood control channel was designed by Hendrik van Breen, an engineer working for ...

to the east,

Jakarta Inner Ring Road Jakarta Inner Ring Road ( id, Jalan Tol Lingkar Dalam Jakarta), also known as the Jakarta Inner-City Toll Road ( id, Jalan Tol Dalam Kota Jakarta) is a toll road circling the city of Jakarta, Indonesia. On northern and the eastern section, the tol ...

to the west, and Jalan Kyai Tapa to the south. It was among the first Jakarta's planned suburb established during the 1960s. As of 2004 it had a population of 27,896. It has

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of 11450.

History

Grogol started as a lunatic asylum which was converted in a Japanese Internment Camp for civilians during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. Triangle-shaped Grogol began as a new residential suburb built on 25 hectares of land. This land has been allocated by the Jakarta city government in 1952 for housing, especially for public servants which includes a number of members from the parliament. The area was established around the 1960s. Grogol was located on the eastern side of the

and was designed to be flood-proof as a conscious effort to address Jakarta's regular flooding problems. Despite the planning, heavy rains in February 1960 flooded the residential area in Grogol up to the knee and waist. The February 1960s flooding was the first crisis for Governor Soemarno, who was installed only days before the floods began.

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