Misplaced Avant-garde
Baskoro Tedjo claimed he only carried on the master plan already worked out by Jero Wacik’s staff. But the monumental design itself was seen by archeologists as endangering the site.
February 10, 2009
BASKORO Tedjo, 52, a senior architect of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), finds it hard to forget his brief meeting with Jero Wacik in early March last year. That’s when he got involved in the complicated Majapahit case. In the evening, Minister Jero invited Baskoro to his residence in South Jakarta. Jero Wacik zealously described his dream to display the grandeur of Majapahit to the whole world.
Baskoro was asked to design the Majap
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