Lawang Sewu, a huge building located at Tugu Muda Semarang (Indonesia) boundary is a Javanese term meaning a thousand doors. While hearing Lawang Sewu, what is it your mind? It is surely not far from the thought of a building with a thousand doors.

Really? I myself have not counted the doors yet. It is because there are some areas that are prohibited to be entered by the public. This is to protect the visitors on the ground that Lawang Sewu is a place that is suspected to be haunted.

Therefore, those who do not know anything about mystics are prohibited to enter these certain areas. Semarang people already familiar with Lawang Sewu, an old inheritance building built by two Dutch architects, Prof Jacob F.Klinkhamer and B.J Queendag, in 1903.

It has been a very long time since Lawang Sewu has been occupied and therefore has been neglected. So, in addition to its many doors, Lawang Sewu is also familiar with the predicate of a place that can be used by anyone who wants to test his/her gall, especially with ghosts.

Believe it or not, it depends on how we see it. As a reference, this has indeed been proved by some people; one of them is by national private Television that succeeded in taking picture of ghost appearance. Lawang Sewu is actually a nice and unique place; the building is very sturdy although it is more than one century in age. The local government of Semarang recently held some exhibitions at Lawang Sewu, e.g. furniture, handicraft, literature, food and clothes festival.