JAKARTA is maybe a city with a secret Aladdin’s lamp. Now we barely remember what did not exist before April 1966, before President Sukarno appointed Ali Sadikin Governor of Jakarta.

I tried to draw up a list from memory: Jalan H.R. Rasuna Said, Jalan Casablanca, Taman Ismail Marzuki, various youth centers, the entertainment park at Ancol, the film center, the textile museum, wayang museum and art museum, the city bus station, traffic lights,