WARTAKOTALIVE.COM, JAKARTA – The Casablanca tunnel is one of the famous tunnels in Jakarta. The busiest tunnel in the capital city has a lot of history in Jakarta.
What Jakartans don’t know the Casablanca tunnel. The Casablanca tunnel is very strategic because it connects business areas in Jakarta, namely Jalan Sudirman with Jalan Jatinegara.
The Casablanca Tunnel is located under Jalan Kuningan. Its strategic location makes the Casablanca Tunnel never free from traffic jams during rush hours, such as going to and from work.
Although now a flyover has been built to connect Jatinegara and Sudirman, this has not made the Casablanca Tunnel free from traffic jams.
Even on the way home from work, traffic jams in the Casablanca Tunnel can reach 21.00 WIB due to a bottleneck on the road to Tebet, South Jakarta.
Uniquely, after passing through the Casablanca Tunnel there is a view of the cemetery. This is what makes the Casablanca Tunnel famous not only in Jakarta but also throughout Indonesia.
In the history of the Casablanca Tunnel, this tunnel is famous for its haunted appearance.
That said, the Casablanca Tunnel used to be the former Menteng Pulo TPU cemetery which was evicted.
The area is in a strategic area which is included in the DKI Jakarta Government development plan.
So that the mass graves in the area were eventually moved to another location.
Despite rejection and warnings from local community leaders, the transfer was still carried out to provide land for road construction.
However, he said there was one body that was still intact and had not been able to be moved until it was finally buried under construction.
The local community also believes that the Casablanca Tunnel area was already haunted long before the TPU was built.
That said, in ancient times before the Casablanca Tunnel and even the TPU were built, there was a sad story that happened at this location.
