Tampaksiring Presidential Palace

Tampaksiring Presidential Palace is situated more less at altitude of 700 meters above the sea, located at the top of the hills in Tampaksiring Village, Tampaksiring District, Gianyar Regency, Bali Island. It was the only presidential palace that built during the period of Indonesian administration of 1957-1960, fully managed by Indonesian people, initiated by the first Indonesian President: Soekarno.
The name of Tampaksiring derives from two words of Bali language, tampak means sole of the foot and siring means oblique. According to legend which was noted on palmyra palm Usana Bali, this name taken from the trace of a king’s sole of foot, the king name was Mayadenawa. The area of the forest that stepped over by the King Mayadenawa with walking on his slanted foot was memorized as Tampaksiring.

The Tampaksiring palace was constructed gradually, with its architect: R.M Soedarsono. The first building was Wisma Merdeka and Wisma Yudhistira in 1957, continued to complete in 1963. then, for the interest of ASEAN SUMMIT XIV’s activities, in Bali on 7-8 October 2003, anew building was established and Balai Wantilan was renovated, the new building has its own entrance furnished with Bentar Temple, Kori Agung, as well as Parking Lot equipped with its Balai Bengong.

The Tampaksiring palace is functioned as president and vice president official programs in the manner of governmental and state events, furthermore it is also a place for president and vice president and their families as well as for the state guests to rest. It was noted, the state guests who have visited the Tampaksiring presidential Palace, among others; President Ne Win from Burma (now is Myanmar), President Tito form Yugoslavia, President Ho Chi Minh from Vietnam, The Prime Minister Nehru from India, The Prime Minister Khrusschev from Uni Soviet, The Quin Juliana from Dutch, and Caesar Hirohito from Japan.aloooo

The Tampaksiring Presidential palace area now comprises five main buildings and one pendapa. Two of the main building were Wisma Merdeka (1200 Square meters) and Wisma Negara (1476 squares meters) that separated by fissure in the hill with the depth of 15 meters more and less, but connected to a bridge of 40 meters along, the other three main buildings are named Wisma Yudishtira, Wisma Bima, include the space for conference, and Balai Wantilan.