--- --- Mar 12, 2026 # House of Tugu Old Town Jakarta Jakarta by Joni Sweet  Courtesy House of Tugu Old Town Jakarta When [House of Tugu](https://tuguhotels.com/hotels/jakarta/ "undefined") finally opened in Jakarta’s Old Town (Kota Tua) in January 2025 after two decades of development, it offered something rare in Indonesia: a public home for Peranakan heritage. One-of-a-kind antiques painstakingly collected over nearly 60 years by Anhar Setjadibrata, who co-owns the Tugu Hotels & Restaurants group with his wife, Wedya Julianti, and daughter Lucienne Anhar, fill the 26 guest rooms and corridors of the historic eight-building complex. That visibility matters. For generations—from 1967 until nearly 2000—assimilationist policies restricted public expressions of Chinese-Indonesian identity, leaving many Peranakan Indonesians disconnected from their heritage. Today, House of Tugu displays more than 1,000 privately preserved pieces, including an 87-ft. gold- and red-hued Chinese New Year dragon from the 1960s and a tiger-headed ceremonial boat built in 1648\. The next stage arrives in June with the opening of the on-site Huang Museum, which will bring several thousand more artifacts out of warehouses and into public view. “We don’t want to be a typical museum,” Lucienne says. “We want to tell the stories of each of these items—and the people behind them.” House of Tugu Old Town Jakarta: World’s Greatest Places 2026 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collection/worlds-greatest-places/2026/house-of-tugu-old-town-jakarta/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collection/worlds-greatest-places/2026/house-of-tugu-old-town-jakarta/"},"headline":"House of Tugu Old Town Jakarta","datePublished":"2026-03-12T10:56:32.257Z","dateModified":"2026-03-12T10:56:33.797Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collection/worlds-greatest-places/2026/house-of-tugu-old-town-jakarta/","keywords":["World's Greatest Places","list","franchise"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6ecdfc99063ae08/69ae8eb5e1b1333e543a0b5f/HotelTugu_WGP_2026.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joni Sweet"}],"creator":"Joni Sweet","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6ecdfc99063ae08/69ae8eb5e1b1333e543a0b5f/HotelTugu_WGP_2026.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/worlds-greatest-places/","name":"World's Greatest Places"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collection/worlds-greatest-places/2026/house-of-tugu-old-town-jakarta/","name":"House of Tugu Old Town Jakarta"}}]}] ```