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Tangerang
Largest city in Banten, Indonesia

Tangerang

Tangerang is the city with the largest population in the province of Banten, Indonesia.

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Located on the western border of Jakarta and bordered with South Tangerang city, Tangerang is the sixth largest city proper in the nation. Tangerang is home to Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, the primary airport serving the Jakarta metropolitan area.

Get in

Getting to Tangerang

Jakarta's main international airport is located in Tangerang.

  1. 01
    Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
  2. 02
    Poris Plawad
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Benteng Heritage Museum

    Museum on the history of Chinese settlement in Tangerang and Indonesia, and the importance of the voyages of Chinese admiral Zheng He in spreading Chinese heritage across (Southeast) Asia.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Cengkareng Golf Club
  2. 02
    Modern Golf and Country Club

    An additional golf course is in the planned community of Karawaci, and more are in neighbouring South Tangerang.

Eat

Where to eat

A wide range of restaurants is available in the various shopping malls and at the airport. This includes Indonesian fare, Western-style fast food, Chinese and Japanese food.

  1. 01
    Restoran Istana Nelayan
  2. 02
    Pondok Kemangi

    Raya Serpong km.4 Ruko Pondok Kemangi No.

  3. 03
    Salsa Food City

    A lot of restaurants here, ranging from Sundanese, Chinese, Makassar, and Western.

How locals move

Getting around Tangerang the local way

  • Get inThe terminal serves a wide range of highly frequent local buses and minibuses to and from destinations throughout Tangerang, Jakarta, and South Tangerang.
  • Get aroundThe cheapest way to get around in Tangerang is, as in the other major Indonesian cities, by minibus (angkot).
  • Get aroundAngkots follow a fixed route (there are various routes throughout the city), but there is no fixed schedule and there are no fixed stops.
  • Get aroundThe price of an angkot ride within the city is usually about Rp2,000 to 5,000.
  • Get aroundIt is best to ask a local which angkot route to take, and how to recognise the location you want to get off.

From Wikivoyage: Tangerang, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Langley16 (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.