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KOMPAS.com – Tower Saidah sharply viral and widely discussed on social media.
Then the question arises, who is the owner of Menara Saidah? Is it true that the owner is a movie and soap opera star? Inneke Koesherawati?
What is the history of Menara Saidah?
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Viral on social media
Viral Menara Saidah initially started from an upload by a netizen who claimed to have received a job interview invitation at Menara Saidah, Jakarta.
Even though it is known that the building has been empty and uninhabited since 2007.
In his confession, he failed to attend the interview because he was in Tulungagung, East Java.
Work! What’s wrong with this building? Yesterday, I recently received an interview invitation here, only my position in Tulungagung, so it’s not clear. https://t.co/NiI4H2v8bm
— OPEN DM?baca likes & carrd? (@worksfess) January 23, 2022
The upload was uploaded to the Twitter account @workfess on Sunday (23/1/2022). Until now, the upload has been shared with 930 retweets and liked by 8,983 netizens.
Some of the netizens’ comments on the upload alluded to the Sarinah Tower, which had not been inhabited for a long time, so it became haunted. Including the condition of the so-called sloping building.
Built 1995
The building was started in 1995 by the contractor PT Hutama Karya and was completed in 1998.
Initially, this office building was named Gracindo and was said to have cost up to Rp 50 billion to build.
Quoted from the archives of PT Hutama-Karya, the architecture of the building is Roman style with 30 floors and towers on Jalan Gatot Subroto, Jakarta.
A building filled with ornaments, both externally and internally, requires precision and accuracy in its implementation.
The Roman-style statues inside and outside the building are said to have been imported directly from Italy.
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The first owner of Mustika Ratu
Quoted from Bangka Pos, the first owner of the building was PT Mustika Ratu on behalf of Mooryati Sudibyo.
Then the building was auctioned in 1995 and won by the Saidah family with the owner handed over to Fajri Setiawan, the fifth child of Mrs. Saidah.
The building was then renovated and its name was changed to Menara Saidah.
Saidah’s name is taken from the name of its owner, Saidah Abu Bakar Ibrahim.
Saidah Abu Bakar Ibrahim is the mother-in-law of film and soap opera actor Inneke Koesherawati.
After moving from Mustika Ratu to the Saidah family, the number of floors increased from only 15 to almost double, namely 28 floors.
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Been a PPU office to the Ministry
From the archives of the Kompas Daily, September 2, 1999, it was noted that the building was the office of the 1999 General Elections Committee (PPU) Secretariat.
Not only that, the building, which is located on Jalan Letjen MT Haryono, was also the office of the Ministry for the Acceleration of Development in Eastern Indonesia.
Currently, the ministry is called the Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Villages, and Transmigration.
Closed 2007
The magnificent building was officially closed to the public in 2007 because it was suspected that the building was tilted several degrees.
This condition is considered to endanger the safety of the occupants of the building.
The construction was considered problematic from the start, but neither the owner nor the Building Supervision and Control Agency (P2B) were willing to provide an explanation.
The management of Saidah Tower, PT Gamlindo Nusa denied that the building was tilted.
According to them, the building was intentionally vacated until the tenant’s lease period expired and the rental scheme to the next prospective tenant is one building as a whole.
According to local residents, there had been renovation activities in mid-2015, but the renovations stopped after two months, quoted from Kompas Daily, August 3, 2016.
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It was about to be taken over by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government
The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government (Pemprov) had planned to take over the utilization of Saidah Tower in 2016.
However, this plan failed to materialize.
Until now, Saidah Tower is still not functioning and looks stalled. The building is also surrounded by a tin fence and guarded by several people.
Previously, due to its strategic location, there were many offers of entry, including from Satyagama University in 2011.
However, the ownership transfer process did not occur because the original owner was not willing to show pictures of the building structure.
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