Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex
Coordinates: 6°13′6.88″S 106°48′9.04″E / 6.2185778°S 106.8025111°E
Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex, named Senayan Sports Complex from 1984 to 2001, is a sports complex located in Senayan, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The sports complex host main stadium with capacity of 88,000 spectators, athletic tracks, football fields, aquatics stadium, tennis courts (indoor and outdoor), hockey, baseball and archery fields, and several indoor gymnasiums. It is named after Sukarno, Indonesia's first President. It is the largest and one of the oldest sport complex in Jakarta, and also one of the largest in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. The Gelora Bung Karno Stadium is the main building within this sports complex. The word Gelora itself is abbreviations of Gelanggang Olahraga which means "Sport Arena", and it also means "vigorous" (like the flame or ocean wave) in Indonesian.
Other than hosting numbers of sports facilities, the Senayan sports complex is also a popular place for Jakartans to do physical exercises; jogging, bicycling, aerobics and calisthenics especially during weekend.
The sports complex was built to host fourth Asian Games in 1962. Construction began on the stadium on February 8, 1960 and finished on July 21, 1962. Its construction was partially funded through a special loan from the Soviet Union. The stadium's original capacity of 100,800 people was reduced to 88,083 as a result of renovations for the 2007 Asian Cup.
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