Shopping at Braga

BANDUNG offered many attractions to the wives and families accompanying the delegates to the Asia-Africa (AA) Conference. Even the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, Pridarshani Nehru better known as Indira Gandhi, was astonished by the presence of the Blinden Instituut, a school for the blind in Bandung. "Her surprise was to such an institution in Indonesia," said Romlah Rustandi Martakusumah.

Romlah, now 93, was one of the liaison officers in charge of accompanying the spouses, wives and children of delegation members. Apart from escorting Indira Gandhi, Romlah attended to the wives of other delegates, like Norodom Buppha Devi, a daughter of Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, who was then only 11.

April 21, 2015