Based on the map topographis Bureu Batavia in 1903, this area was already known by the name of Pluit or Fluit. In Dutch, Fluit can be interpreted as the flute or Pluit often sounded the referee in a match. It could also mean long narrow bread. Although it has various meanings as mentioned above, but the name Pluit area did not have such a literal relationship. In Betawi historian notes, Alwi Shahab, Pluit name became famous when the Dutch troops face attacks Banten Sultanate, in 1660. At that time, the troops Netherlands use a damaged vessel to inhibit the Sultanate of Banten forces attacking from the west of Jakarta. "Dutch forces put a long straight vessel (Fluitship) named Het Witte Paert at times Muara Angke. The vessel had not suitable for use at sea, "wrote Alwi Shahab. By the Dutch troops, Fluitship used to prop Vijhoek fortress on the edge of Grogol east times Angke. Fluiship used to hold sporadic attacks carried Sultanate of Banten forces within a few years. By the local community, the location was then known as De Fluit. In the times and adapted to the Malay tongue, slowly turned into Pluit. After independence, is still in the record Alwi Shahab, the trace presence Fluitship ship that made the camp has not been seen. Similarly, the presence of Fort Vijhoek that has not left. Now, along the side of Grogol, installed iron fence and the presence of overpasses (flyovers) helped bury the existence of the fort that can not be separated from the history of the nation. Pluit area included in the administrative area of Penjaringan, North Jakarta became one of the elite residential area in the capital. In addition to housing the elite, now Pluit area bordering the Bay of Jakarta in the north, Village Kapok in the east and the west in the Networking Village. Unlike other Jakarta area, not many Native Jakarta alias Betawi who settled in Pluit. Betawi people are not too entrenched as in Kemang, Kebayoranbaru, or some other inhabited areas Betawi people. Pluit now inhabited by migrants, as many Chinese people to open a business in the shopping center Glodok
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