Jakarta Planetarium, Planetarium and observatory in Cikini, Jakarta, Indonesia

The Jakarta Planetarium is an observatory in the Taman Ismail Marzuki complex in Cikini that offers astronomy education programs and evening sky viewing for visitors. The white dome houses projection equipment that casts images of celestial bodies onto a curved interior surface, creating the feeling of sitting under the open sky.

President Sukarno approved construction of this facility in 1964 as part of a cultural education center in the capital. Governor Ali Sadikin inaugurated the building in 1968, making it the first planetarium in the country.

The planetarium shows nine films, screened in rotation, each running about 60 minutes with live narration and musical accompaniment. Titles include Tata Surya, Gerhana Matahari dan Gerhana Bulan, and Galaksi Kita Bima Sakti. The exhibition hall displays a spacesuit used for space travel, including landing on the moon, alongside photographs and explanations of galaxy types and the theorists behind them.

Each of the nine films runs about 60 minutes, narrated live with musical accompaniment, and they are shown in rotation. Direct telescope viewing is offered for events such as lunar and solar eclipses and comets, so timing a visit to one of these phenomena is worthwhile. The building sits inside the Taman Ismail Marzuki arts complex in Cikini.

The exhibition hall holds a spacesuit of the kind worn for space travel, including Moon landings, alongside other space-observation equipment and photographs of galaxies with the theories of their formation. Since 2010 a mobile observatory minibus has carried telescopes such as a LUNT 80 mm solar telescope and a Vixen VC200 out to the public.