INDONESIA-JAKARTA-10-0409 THRU 0415 Photo 5

INDONESIA-JAKARTA-10-0409 THRU 0415

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April 22nd 2010
I decided to separate Jakarta... After Bali the cousins and I flew back to Jakarta. Jakarta to me felt like an undefinable city...Parhaps its character is its lack of definition...Like many Southeast Asian cities, it has beautiful colonial era buildings (Dutch), especially in the Batavia neighborhood, but there seems, and I could be completely wrong, a tremendous neglect...The city, minus the ... read more

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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more