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The National Museum, Jakarta

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One of the gems of Jakarta is the National Museum, located in Central Jakarta, opposite the MONAS (National Monument) in Merdeka Square. The museum is focused on what is important in Indonesian culture and history. The inner courtyard is full, too full, of stone sculptures with a Hindu/Buddhist origin, from the largely Javanese and Balinese [...]
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Sunda Kelapa – Jakarta

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Centuries-old harbour where the wooden schooners still dominate the trade
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Kota – Jakarta

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The Kota neighbourhood represents what remains of the old Dutch colonial capital, Batavia.
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Jakarta

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Jakarta is your typical, not-very-attractive, South-East Asian capital city: sprawling, traffic jammed, polluted. Much of the authentic coleure has been sacrificed for what is supposed to represent progress and development
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07. Batavia

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The Kota neighbourhood of Jakarta was were the centre of the old Batavia was, and it shows. Even the harbour of Sunda Kelapa fits in the image of the colonial past.
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06. Jakarta

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A modern city, more big than beautiful, with in the centre some traces of the old colonial past left, including a somewhat hidden cemetery
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05. the arrival

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We made it, just in case you were wondering. Twenty-one hours door-to-door, of which fourteen in a plane. And Indonesia is still as we left it, six years ago, full of people smiling, friendly, helpful; this is what we had come to appreciate so much in the year we lived here. When pulling your suitcase [...]
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  • The 10 Latest Entries to the Site

    • the theft report July 3, 2026
    • La Defense – Paris July 2, 2026
    • What’s new? June 11, 2026
    • the museum June 10, 2026
    • the murals June 6, 2026
    • 27 Mexico City (2) – the murals June 6, 2026
    • 26. Mexico City May 28, 2026
    • 25. a bit more Mexican history May 23, 2026
    • 24. arrival in Mexico City May 23, 2026
    • Museo de Antropología de Xalapa May 17, 2026
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