South Rawa Badak is administrative village (kelurahan in Indonesian

Indonesian language

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) at Koja

Koja, Jakarta

Koja is a subdistrict of North Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. It is known as the location of Kampung Tugu, a historic Portuguese-influenced neighborhood in North Jakarta....

 subdistrict

Subdistrict

Subdistrict is a low level administrative division of a country. In Thailand it may refer to the King Amphoe or to the Tambon. In England and Wales it was part of a Registration district....

, North Jakarta

North Jakarta

North Jakarta is one of the five cities of Jakarta, Indonesia. North Jakarta contains the entire coastal area within Jakarta Special District. In North Jakarta, an area at the estuary of Ciliwung river was the main port for the kingdom of Tarumanegara, which will later grows to become Jakarta....

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The zip code of this administrative village is 14230.

Toponomy and history

The name of Rawa Badak possibly derived from Sundanese

Sundanese language

Sundanese is the language of about 27 million people from the western third of Java or about 15% of the Indonesian population....

 word rawa badag, which the mean is the wide swamp.. In the eastern of Jakarta (the former name is Batavia), when this administrative village lies, were the wide swamp in the early time.

South Rawa Badak is the separation of former Rawa Badak administrative village, according to Governor Decree (Surat Keputusan Gubernur Propinsi Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) Number 1251 of 1986.