Celebrating the Urban Nusantao
Goethe Haus Institut Jakarta presents a photo exhibition on Southeast Asia’s major cities, capturing human beings through the city structure and urban architect. These cities turn out to resemble one another.
June 17, 2008
IN this area, one major city resembles another. Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Singapore, Hanoi, and Kuala Lumpur have similar stories in store.
Wilhelm Solheim II, an 84-year-old archeologist of Hawaii University is one who has spent all his life examining the prehistoric era in Southeast Asia. He has found the Nusantao concept of maritime communication and trading networks, Nusantao being derived from “nusa” or island and “tau” meaning h
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