Pusat Dokumentasi Sastra H.B. Jassin Is Historical Buildings

Indonesia is a country rich with literary works. Starting from the old literature such as La Galigo Sulawesi, which is the world's longest epic, to the ancient Javanese texts such as Kakawin Arjunawiwaha or Ramayana, Indonesia became a recognized literary world.

PDS HB Jassin was founded by the author, editor, and literary critics HB Jassin on June 28, 1976. Currently, more than 48 thousand documents contained in the PDS literature HB Jassin. There, available reading room open to the public.

For works of modern literature, Indonesia and even has a Documentation Centre for Literature (PDS) HB Jassin which is Indonesia's largest documentation centers in the world literature. But the omission of DKI Jakarta Provincial Government in the budget allocation for the PDS PDS HB Jassin make a save 48 thousand this literary document threatened to close.

Documentation center, founded by writer and literary critic HB Jassin it can be said is the only place that save tens of thousands of works of literature. Details, there are 16,816 fiction titles, 11,990 non-fiction book titles, 457 reference titles, 772 titles of books / plays, 750 folders author biographies, 15,552 clippings, 610 sheets of photo author, title of paper 571, 630 title of thesis and dissertations, 732 cassette sound recordings, and 15 units of video tapes.