Pasar Baru

Pasar Baru
Subdistrict
Other transcription(s)
• Dutch	Passer Baroe
• Chinese	新把殺
• Punjabi	ਨਵਾਂ ਬਾਜ਼ਾਰ Navāṁ bāzāra
Southern gate of Pasar Baru
Country	Indonesia
Province	Jakarta
Administrative city	Central Jakarta
District	Sawah Besar
Postal code	10710

Pasar Baru is an subdistrict (kelurahan) in the Sawah Besar district (kecamatan) in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. It has postal code of 10710.

Pasar Baru is also the name of a 19th-century market which was established in the neighborhood and gave its name to the administrative village. Established in 1820,^[1] Pasar Baru is one of the oldest shopping district in Jakarta.^[2]

Pasar Baru is located in the heart of Jakarta's busiest district. The area centered in a street called Jalan Pasar Baru that runs in a north-south axis. The southern edge of the street is marked with a gate and a bridge that span over a canal that connects to Jalan Raya Pos, a section of Java's Great Post Road that runs through Jakarta. Right across the Pasar Baru southern gate is Jakarta Art Building. The Pasar Baru street is lined with numbers of shops, restaurants and also several shopping centers. Most of shops here sell textiles, shoes, clothes and other fashion products, such as; sportswear, watch and jewelries. While shopping center on the north sides specialized on selling cosmetics, cameras and photography products.

Culturally the area demonstrates a fusion of Indonesian, Dutch colonial, Chinese and Indian cultures. Pasar Baru is popularly known as Jakarta's Little India, due to the fact that large numbers of Indian Indonesians settled here (but mostly of Sikh and Sindhi ancestry in contrast to Medan's Kampung Madras, whereby Tamils are the majority regardless of religion), and established their textile business in this market.^[3]