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Jam Gadang,is it like 'small Big Ben'?
Jam Gadang is an o'clock as landmark of Bukittinggi City,West Sumatra. This special symbol from West Sumatra has story and unique because it has been there for teens years old.Jam Gadang established by an architect Yazid Sutan Gigi Ameh in 1926. The first stone setting up did by Rook Maker's first son when he was 6 years old. The o'clock was a gift from Queen of Dutch to Controleur (City Secretary), Rook Maker. The form of Jam Gadang roof had been changed for three times from time to time. It had a circle shape with a cock statue on the top in Dutch colonial. In Japan occupation, they changed the roof like a Chinese temple roof. In independence era, it changed to four pitched roof like traditional Minangkabau's house with a tip bamboo shoot. On the top of Jam Gadang, we can still see form Limpapeh Bridge with distance 1 km from location.It has diameter 80 centimeters with base blueprint 13 X 4 meters and height 26 meters. This phenomenal o'clock construction has been spent around 3000 Gulden where it become
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