Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex, sports venue

Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex is a major sports venue in Jakarta with multiple stadiums and training facilities. The grounds contain a football stadium, tennis courts, swimming pools, and other structures built to host different sports.

The complex was built in the 1960s and hosted the Asian Games, a major regional sporting event. It has remained a key venue for national and international sports competitions since then.

The name Gelora means "surge" or "vigorous," like a flame or ocean wave, and the complex honours Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, who proposed it. In 1969 the New Order renamed it Gelora Senayan, and Presidential Decree No. 7/2001 restored the original name after the 1998 reforms. On weekends Jakarta residents use the grounds for jogging, cycling, aerobics and calisthenics.

The complex covers 279 hectares, so pick one cluster of venues rather than trying to walk between all of them. The main stadium's outer ring road is 920 metres long. On weekends the grounds fill with joggers and cyclists, especially around the stadium.

The main stadium's oval roof is a temu gelang, a ring joined to itself, spanning 354 m north-south and 325 m east-west, with a 920 m outer ring road around it. The complex once covered 279 hectares; under the Senayan Sports Foundation management it shrank to 136.84 hectares, about 49 percent, as land went to offices, hotels and malls.