The National Archives Building Controversy
The government wants to take over the old National Archives Building, successfully restored and managed by the National Archives Building Foundation. But concerns over its commercialization worries Foundation managers who refuse to give in.
May 3, 2005
There was an interesting sketch on a front page of the Italian newspaper La Domenica del Corriere published in 1942. It was of a soldier from the Dai Nippon Army in Batavia standing in front of the residence of the Governor of the East Indies (now the State Palace), after having raised the Hino Maru, a white flag with a red circle, on the top of the building.
Leo Haks, a Dutch collector, sent this sketch to Tamalia Alisjahbana, the Executive Direc
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