Tangerang
— — a river city the capital grew into.
Not only on a wall.
“A city on the Cisadane River in Banten, immediately west of Jakarta, and one of the largest in Indonesia by population. Tangerang is older than it tends to read — a Chinese-Indonesian Benteng community has lived along the river since the seventeenth century, and the Boen Tek Bio temple in the old quarter dates to the same period. The newer city around it is industrial and fast: Soekarno-Hatta International Airport sits on Tangerang ground, the factories run on shift, and the toll road moves through the night. The river is the constant. It carries the old neighbourhoods and the new on its banks.
Tangerang, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Tangerang is a city on the Cisadane River in Banten province on the island of Java, immediately west of Jakarta and part of the Jabodetabek metropolitan region. The city covers about 165 square kilometres, holds a population in excess of 1.8 million, and ranks among the largest cities in Indonesia by population. Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, the country's busiest, sits on Tangerang ground. The Cisadane River, which rises on the slopes of Mount Pangrango to the south, runs through the city and has historically been the line along which Tangerang grew.
The oldest neighbourhood of Tangerang is Pasar Lama, the old market quarter on the east bank of the Cisadane, home to the Chinese-Indonesian Benteng community that has lived here since at least the seventeenth century. The Boen Tek Bio temple in Pasar Lama, founded in 1684, is one of the oldest Chinese temples in Indonesia and remains the centre of community life. The annual Peh Cun river festival, held around the early summer, runs dragon-boat races on the Cisadane in front of the temple. Around this older core the modern city of toll roads and factory estates has grown out.
The climate is tropical monsoon, Am in the Köppen system. Daytime highs run near 32°C through the year, nights drop to around 24°C, and annual rainfall is roughly 1,700 millimetres, concentrated in a wet season that runs from about November through April. The city sits low — about fourteen metres above sea level — on the alluvial plain of western Java, between the volcanic hills of the interior and the Java Sea. Afternoon storms during the wet season are sudden and short, and the river runs full from the southern hills through the centre of town.