REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Jakarta Maritime Museum will be closed to the public on Wednesday after its Buildings A and B caught fire on Tuesday morning.

"It will likely be closed for a day and will be opened to the public the following day," Husnizon Nizar, acting chief of the museum, said here on Tuesday.

Although several collections, including marine navigation instruments and traditional boats in miniature caught fire, the public can still visit the library and diaroma in two blocks of Building A of the  Dutch colonial heritage site dating back to the 17th century, he noted.

He remarked that Jakarta Governor Anies Bawesdan had instructed him to secure rooms and isolate the museum for the time being.

Jakarta Maritime Museum catches fire on Tuesday (January 16).

"The governor said although the museum is open, visitors must not get injured due to the debris from the fire," he stated.

The fire razed Building C in blocks two and three that contained several collections, including marine navigation instruments and traditional boats in miniature, and Building A in blocks four and five that contained a diaroma on the history of international sailors.

Firefighters tried to extinguish the fire that burned the Museum Bahari in Penjaringan, Jakarta, Tuesday (January 16).

A museum officer spotted the fire on Tuesday morning at 8:50 a.m. local time. He tried to put out the blaze but to no avail.

The fire could be put out after several fire trucks were sent to the scene.

Spokesperson of Jakarta Police Argo Yuwono said, the fire suspected due to electrical short circuit. "According to the witness, there was a spark of fire at C Room. It came from a burning cable," he said at Jakarta Police headquarters on Tuesday (January 16).

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