Pavilions of Indonesian provinces dance performance in
West Java pavilion in TMII. pavilion in TMII. Since each Indonesian province maintains its own unique and distinct cultures, shelters, attire and dialects, TMII built a model of each of the houses from the provinces. TMII attempted not only to reconstruct the homes, but also to create a realistic model of the environment and shelters of the various people of Indonesia. The venues, which are situated around the main lake in a similar fashion to the different islands of the
Indonesian archipelago, are thematically divided into six areas in respect to the main islands of Indonesia;
Java,
Sumatra,
Kalimantan (
Borneo),
Sulawesi, the
Lesser Sunda Islands Each pavilions featured in typical
vernacular Indonesian architecture of each provinces. Examples of Indonesian traditional vernacular houses are:
Joglo and Omah Kudus
Javanese houses of
Central Java,
East Java, and
Yogyakarta pavilion;
Minang Rumah Gadang of
West Sumatra pavilion;
Malay houses of
Jambi and
Riau provinces;
Torajan
Tongkonan and Bugis house of
South Sulawesi pavilion; and
Balinese house compound with intricately carved
candi bentar split gate and
kori agung gate. It also displays various traditional costumes, wedding costumes, dance costumes, ethnographic artifacts such as weapons and daily tools, and models of traditional architecture to describe the way of life of its people. Each province's pavilion is also equipped with a small stage, amphitheatre or auditorium for traditional dance performances, traditional music performances or traditional ceremonies that are usually held in Sundays. Some of these pavilions are also equipped with cafeterias featuring traditional
Indonesian cuisines and also souvenir shops offering various handicrafts, T-shirts and souvenirs. Since 1975 until the 2000s, the original design of TMII consisted of a model of the traditional houses (
rumah adat) from the provinces of Indonesia, Since Indonesia consists of
provinces (in 2004), the new province pavilions of
Bangka Belitung,
Banten,
West Sulawesi,
Gorontalo and
Riau Islands have been built in northeast part of the park, although the size and area of these pavilions is much smaller than the previous ones. After the recognition of the
Chinese Indonesian culture as an integral part of Indonesian culture in 2000, the Chinese Indonesian pavilion and a
confucian temple was built within the park.
Religious buildings The religious buildings of several official faiths is meant to showcase the inter-faiths tolerance and religious harmony of Indonesia. The religious buildings are: • Pangeran Diponegoro
Mosque • Santa Catharina
Catholic church • Haleluya
Protestant church • Penataran Agung Kertabhumi Balinese
Hindu temple • Arya Dwipa Arama
Buddhist temple • Kong Miao
Confucian temple • Sasana Adirasa Pangeran Samber Nyawa – It is used for religious activities of all religions and also as a place for inter-faith exchange of ideas.
Gardens and parks There are about ten gardens spread within TMII complex, but most are located primarily on the north and northeast side of the main lake: •
Orchid Garden • Medicinal herbs Garden •
Cactus Garden •
Jasmine Garden • Keong Emas (Golden Snail)
Flower Garden • Picnic Park • Taman Budaya Tionghoa Indonesia, a Chinese Indonesian cultural park
Taman Burung (Bird Park) . Taman Burung is divided into five exhibits: Kubah barat (West dome) which include birds from the
Greater Sunda Islands (Except
Sulawesi) and the
Lesser Sunda Islands, kubah timur (East dome) which include birds from Sulawesi, the
Maluku Islands, and
New Guinea, a free ranging river exhibit, raptor aviaries, and other aviaries and exhibits scattered around the park. The park also owns several birds from outside Indonesia, such as birds from
China,
Africa,
Australia, and
South America.
Dunia Air Tawar Dunia Air Tawar is the second largest freshwater and brackish themed aquarium in Asia. The aquarium has over 6000 animals from 126 species, including reptiles, amphibian, crustaceans, and fish. In April 1994, Dunia Air Tawar, known as Taman Aquarium Air Tawar at that time, acquired a pair of wild caught
largetooth sawfish from
Lake Sentani, which died in 2005, making it the only public aquarium to keep sawfish in Indonesia. A large
featherback kept by Dunia Air Tawar was said to be the extinct
Chitala lopis. The individual is a wild caught from
West Java.
Indonesia Science Center The
Indonesia Science Center ( (PP-IPTEK), ) is a
science center located east of the proper, operated by the
National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). It was inaugurated on 20 April 1991. By late 2011, it has 15 sites with about 300 science tools and visited by 341,000 visitors yearly. The sites are Robotic, Electric and Magnet, Mechanics, Mathematics, etc.
Museums style Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum displaying artworks and souvenirs collections of
Suharto. with Balinese style architecture. There are museums at TMII, some of them are managed under the corresponding Ministry or other government agencies; i.e. the Information Museum (
Museum Penerangan) is managed by the
Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, the successor of the Department of Information (
Departemen Penerangan). The museums are as follows: •
Indonesia Museum •
Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum • Soldiers Museum • Stamps Museum • Heritage Museum • Transportation Museum • Museum Electricity & New Energy Museum • Information Museum •
Komodo Indonesian Fauna Museum and Reptile Parks and mammal park. • Batik Museum • Research & Technology Information Centre • Oil & Gas Museum • Bayt
Al-Quran and Istiqlal Islamic Museum •
Indonesian Hakka Museum Theatres • Keong Emas (Golden Snail)
IMAX Theater • Tanah Airku Theater
Monuments, halls, buildings and other exhibits in the center lake viewed from the cable car. • Kala Makara gates (gapura) at entrance gate 1 • Gajah Mada Plaza – With the statue of
Gajah Mada, it is built on the former site of the now-demolished Telecommunications Museum • Tugu Api Pancasila, the main monument, an
obelisk celebrating
Pancasila • Baluwerti, a twin gate with relief of
Indonesian history on its wall • Sasono Utomo, an
exhibition hall • Pendopo Agung Sasono Utomo (Grand Hall), the main building of the hall in Javanese
Joglo style • Sasono Langen Budoyo, indoor stage and theater • Sasono Manganti • Sasana Kriya, a multi-purpose function hall • Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG) – It displays modern
contemporary art to complement the existence of traditional arts. A merchandise store is also located inside the building. It was previously used as the original management office of the park. • Park management office • Tourist Information Center (TIC) • Cokot Sculpture, a display of wooden sculptures by Cokot, a famous Balinese artist • The Miniature of
Borobudur •
APEC Memorial Monument and Garden •
Non-Aligned Nations Friendship Monument and Garden – It is located east of the Indonesia Science Center, which also acts as the main entrance plaza of the science center. • The miniature of the
Indonesian archipelago on the central lake – Each island miniature are ilumminated by multicolor
LED ambient light on its edge. The lake has
dancing fountains and water screen that projects 9 selected
Indonesian folklore at night. This dancing fountain attraction is called
Tirta Cerita ('tirta' means water in
Sanskrit, so it literally translated as "
water of stories") and it also features an attraction of 300
drones that
displays various forms, including a
garuda, the Keong Emas theatre—the landmark of TMII, and the logo of TMII. Visitors can watch the
Tirta Cerita attraction from an
amphitheatre at the front of the Special Region of Yogyakarta pavilion. The attraction is held every night (except the drone display, which only performed on weekends), starting at 18:30. • Jawadwipa amphitheatre – Located at the southwest of the archipelago lake, adjacent with the West Java pavilion. • Plaza Malaka • Cultural Stage – Located at the east side of the Archipelago Lake, used for cultural performances with the background of the lake. • Community Center • Jati Taminah, a remnant of a large
teak tree • Kayu Gede (), the display of large
tree trunk Rides and transports microbus for visitor shuttle transport is provided throughout TMIISince the 2022 revitalization, visitors are no longer allowed to explore TMII using personal motorcycles or cars. All personal vehicles have to be parked at the available parking lots at the west side of the park. Visitors are diverted to use an electric-powered shuttle microbus service called
angkutan keliling or
angling for free. The shuttle service has two corridors and visitors have to wait the shuttle microbus on bus shelters throughout the park. Apart from that, visitors can also use the Skylift Indonesia
cable car or renting
bicycles,
golf carts, and
electric scooters. • North corridor, which stops at: Gerbang TIC - Anjungan Aceh - Anjungan Terpadu - Taman Burung - Community Center - Museum Penerangan - Anjungan Jambi • South corridor, which stops at: Gerbang TIC - Anjungan Jawa Timur - Anjungan Sulawesi Tenggara - Taman Burung - PP IPTEK - Museum Migas - Museum Transportasi - Fresh Water Aquarium - Taman Legenda Keong Mas •
Garuda Kencana people mover (
suspended) • Bicycle, golf carts, and electric scooter rent ride
Recreation facilities • Istana Anak-Anak Indonesia (Indonesian Children Castle) – It has a playground for children, replicas of Indonesian traditional musical instruments, and an exhibition room for
wayang performances and children's drawings. • Saudjana viewing tower – An
observation tower built during the 2022 revitalization that allow visitors to see the vast view of the archipelago lake and the 360° view of whole over TMII. Located at the west side of the archipelago lake. • Skyworld Indonesia – It is an
astronomy and
space exploration museum located north of the West Sumatra pavilion. It also has a small
planetarium and a 5D theatre. Skyworld have numbers of replicas of
space rocket from various countries. • Taman Among Putro kiddy rides park • Desa Seni dan Kerajinan handicraft center • Rare books market • Telaga Mina fishing pond • Warna Alam outbound camp
Lodgings • Desa Wisata hostel • Graha Wisata Remaja, a specialized hostel for teenagers and youths
Restaurants • Caping Gunung restaurant • Pasar Nusantara Sarinah TMII – A new
foodcourt at the north of the Aceh pavilion and east of Skyworld Indonesia, offering a variety of cuisines from whole over Indonesia. Opened on 4 April 2025, it is co-managed by TMII and retail company
Sarinah, the sister company of TMII's manager (InJourney Destination Management). • Various cafeterias,
F&B booths, and
warungs available throughout the park featuring
Indonesian cuisines such as
pecel,
soto,
gado-gado,
nasi goreng and
satay.
Demolished/closed parts or buildings • Snowbay Waterpark – The
water park was considered irrelevant with the cultural spirit of TMII and brought profits to the water park only. The building was demolished during the revitalization, and turned into a new public plaza. The statue of Gajah Mada, which was the icon the museum, is retained, so the plaza is named the 'Gajah Mada Plaza'. • Sports Museum (now became a new parking lot) • Dunia Inline
roller skate track (now becomes the pedestrian entrance at gate 3, southwest of Keong Emas Theatre) • 4D Theatre (now stands the Saudjana viewing tower) • Garuda Theatre – It was used as the venue for
Kabaddi competitions at the
2018 Asian Games. The theatre was demolished for the construction of the Cultural Stage. • Taman Ria Atmaja Park, a permanent stage for cultural and music performances (replaced by the Cultural Stage) • Taman Mini Railway (permanently closed) – The railway had first closed in 2013 for refurbishments, then reopened in 2017. By 2022, all railway tracks were dismantled for the revitalization, leaving two locomotives (TC1011 and CFL-60 DZ) sitting on where the main station used to stand. == Public transportation access ==