- E.W.H. Clason, Origin and growth of Kebayoran, De Ingenieur in Indonesia, Vol. 2 (1950)
- V.R. van rommondt, The Future Javanese Town – in Connection with the Plan for Kebayoran, De Ingenieur in Indonesia, Vol. 2, (1950)
- Jac. P.Thijsse, Town Planning Notes on the Kebayoran Housing Project, De Ingenieur in Indonesia, Vol.2 1950
type of New Town:
> scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
> client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
> policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
Kebayoran Baru was originally planned by Dutch planner ir. Thomas Karsten in 1944 but was later continued by his follower, Indonesian trained Susilo, who can be considered as the first Indonesian town planner. The project started in the early 1950's and was completed in 1960.
After gaining independence Jakarta 's population more than doubled and jumped to an estimated one and a half million in 1949. Therefore a decision was made to build a satellite town to accommodate 100.000 people. It was to be the epitome of modernity, complete with spacious governmental buildings, modern department stores, and Western- style housing. The idea of a new town had been introduced as a retreat for Europeans by the Dutch in 1946, but the symbolism of a modern planned city was easily transferred to the new regime. For leader Sukarno Kebayoran Baru was to be a showpiece of modern urban planning, with large houses along tree-lined, curvilinear streets The design for Kebayoran Baru demonstrates a blend of West European and Javanese town planning principles. the latter one represented in the layout of selfcontained neighbourhoods. similar to the indigenous rural kampung and separated by spacious traffic routes and green zones.
The 20th century new town of Kebayoran Baru bas retained its typical morphology of an independent urban nucleus within Jakarta's changing metropolitan mega-structuree. Higher class suburb. In oktober 2004 plans were presented to convert the residential area into a mixed commercial/residential area. In mid 1997's when the monetary crises hit the country many houses were already converted into offices and other enterprises.
