This will be short.
Actually Indonesia has some similar public fun activity places with Singapore.
We have the IceWorld in Ancol (heard it moved someplace else), which is basically an ex Diamond Ice Cream storage turned into an ‘iceworld’ where they said we can experience snow — naaaah…they have nice ice carving though. We can see that in most weddings.
Singapore has the Snow City in Jurong East. Here, temperature is minus 7 degrees, so we can also experience snow (snowing time is every other hour) and we can try to bobsled down from around 50 m. The venue is soooooo cold, I only used 1/4 of my allocated time to play. Hence, i don’t have my picture taken while making snowman……
Singapore has the Singapore Science Center (I must say this place is amazing). School children and adults can both enjoy the wonders of the science world. Learn about how a PLTA works, how to make a water twister, see a thunderbolt show (very noisy) and all things that we need to learn (from our text book) when we are in high school. They presented it in a fun and very informative way (yeah…they are good in this area).
We can actually ‘make’ things in Science Center. My daughter understands the concept of PLTA by actually turning the valve to pour water into the turbine and see the lights goes brighter and brighter. She asked how a PLTN works and I tell her that if there’s an exhibit on PLTN I won’t go there. hehehehe.
According to my nephew, our Museum Iptek in Taman Mini also have similar exhibits. But….“they are all dirty and not interesting, since mostly are there to see and information are there to be read.” There you go…….
I’m just thinking…..Indonesian have been winning physics and mathematics competitions all over the world. So, we must be cleverer than the other competing countries. But, why can’t we have a decent science center where we can encourage more young minds to open their heart for science ya?
Hmmmmm………maybe because we tends to think that science will not give you enough income to feed the family??
I rest my case.
In My Humble Opinion 