Sriwedari Park, Public garden complex in Surakarta City, Indonesia.
Sriwedari Park is a garden complex in Laweyan, Surakarta, covering about 10 hectares. It contains a raised wooden stage with a red and brown frieze and carved side panels, a painted backdrop, and an artificial lake called Sagaran with an island mound. Tall Casuarina and kenari trees stand among low buildings with pitched roofs.
KRMT Wirjodiningrat, brother-in-law of Pakubuwono X, bought the roughly 10-hectare site from Johannes Busselaar in 1877. Pakubuwono X built Sriwedari as a pleasure garden for the royal family, and it was developed as a city park from 1901. In 1948 it hosted the first Pekan Olahraga Nasional (PON I).
The Gedung Wayang Orang theater presents traditional Javanese performances based on the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics year-round. Visitors can experience these shows as part of the park's role in keeping local artistic traditions alive for the community.
Sriwedari Park sits on Jalan Brigjen Slamet Riyadi in Laweyan, Surakarta, close to the Radya Pustaka Museum. The grounds cover about 10 hectares, with the artificial Sagaran lake and its raised island mound in the southeast. The Gedung Wayang Orang keeps its original open form: the north and south walls are glass rather than brick, so passers-by can watch performances from outside.
The park's name comes from the Serat Arjunasasra: King Arjuna built a garden to fulfil Dewi Sekartaji's wish to be taken away only if such a garden were made for her. The artificial hill in the southeast forms an island beside the Sagaran lake, where teratai flowers and water birds such as ducks and herons were once kept.
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