Bukittinggi

JAKARTA!!!

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November 19th 2006
40 hours on a bus from Bukittinggi to the Capital of Indoinesia doesn't sound very appealing, especially when the sides of the bus are made of cardboard and attached with selotape and the windows are rattling and about to fall out. It must have been exactly what had happened to the front of the bus on the right side where there wasn't a window, just a criss cross of thin stripes of wood tied toge ... 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