page_title: West Jakarta
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: West Jakarta / History
caption_attribution_description: Bahasa Indonesia: Museum Sejarah Fatahillah, Kota Tua, Jakarta
context_page_description: West Jakarta is one of the five administrative cities which form Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia. West Jakarta is not self-governed and does not have a city council, hence it is not classified as a proper municipality. It had a population of 2,486,074 at the 2018 Census. The administrative center of West Jakarta is at Puri Kembangan. The current mayor is Rustam Effendi.
  West Jakarta is bounded by North Jakarta to the north, Central Jakarta to the east, South Jakarta to the south, and Tangerang to the west.
context_section_description: West Jakarta is famous for its Dutch colonial relics such as Town Hall Building (now Jakarta History Museum in Jakarta Old Town), Chinatown (Glodok) and also a number of old churches, mosques, and fortresses of early Dutch occupation in Batavia at that time.
caption: Jakarta History Museum was housed on the original town hall of 17th-century Batavia.
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