The word is derived from the Sundanese cipanas; ci or cai means water, and heat is hot in Indonesian. The word became the name of a village, the village of Cipanas because in this place there are hot springs that contain sulfur.
Cipanas Presidential Palace began in a building that was founded in 1740 by a private owner, a Dutch landowner named Van Heots. However, during the reign of the Dutch East Indies, to be exact start of Governor-General GW Baron van Imhoff (1743), because the appeal of hot springs, built a medical building around the hot springs. Then, because of the charisma and the cool mountain air is clean and fresh nature, the building was used as a resting place of the Governor-General of the Netherlands.
Since the establishment of the reign of the Netherlands, Cipanas Presidential Palace functioned as a resting place and a stopover. However, a very beautiful natural surrounding the main attraction for the visitors, so that during the reign of the van Imhoff, a haven / retreat could switch function. Because the power of hot springs containing sulfur and because the cool mountain air and clean, the building was once used as a treatment for military members of the Company who required treatment.
Commissioner General Leonard du Bus de Pietr Josef Gisignies, for example, noted that most pleased the sulfur baths. Similarly Sirardus Willem Carel van Graaf Hogendorp, secretary (1820-1841). Additionally Daendeles Herman Willem (1808-1811) and Thomas Stanford Raffles (1811-1816) during his official put a few hundred people in the place; most bazaar of them work in the apple orchards and flower gardens as well as in rice mills, in addition to the care of cattle, sheep - sheep, and horses.
Physically, since its establishment until now, the trip changed history Cipanas Palace. Gradually, over the years, this palace grew and grew. Starting from 1916, are still in the reign of the Dutch East Indies, three standing buildings in the palace complex. Now all three are known by the name of Yudhishthira Pavilion, Pavilion Bhima and Arjuna Pavilion.
Nine years later, in 1954 in the official Indonesian President, Sukarno, established a small building, located next to the back of the Main Building. Different from other buildings, around the outer walls and the front yard and side of the building is decorated with stone-shaped bumps. By taking the form of wall hangings as well as the court was that, a unique sounding name of this building, which is building Bentol. (Bentol from Sundanese language; Indonesian counterpart in the bumps too, like mosquito bites).
Twenty-nine years later, in 1983, during the second President of Indonesia, Suharto, following two other pavilions stand, namely Pavilion Pavilion Nakula and Sahadev.
Cipans Presidential Palace has also functioned as a family residence by several families Governor General of the Netherlands. Who once inhabited the building was the family Andrias Cornelis de Graaf (the reign 1926 -1931), Bonifacius Cornelius de Jonge (1931), and the latter, which coincides with the arrival of the Japanese occupation (1942), is Tjarda van Starkenborg Stachourwer.
After Indonesian independence, the building was officially designated as one of the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Indonesia and its function is still used as a resting place of President or Vice-President of the Republic of Indonesia and their families.
Cipanas Presidential Palace is also noted important events in the history of the bow line of the Indonesian economy, namely that on December 13, 1965, Dining Room Main Building, once functioned as a cabinet convened in the context of the determination of changes in the dollar value of 1,000, 00 to Rp1, 00 , precisely during the Indonesian President Sukarno and at the time held by Finance Minister Frans Seda.
In accordance with the Presidential Palace Cipanas function, not used for receiving guests. However, in 1971, Queen Juliana also took the time to stop at the palace when visiting Indonesia.
