Rebuilding Kotagede from Ruins

The culturally protected Kotagede, devastated by the earthquake, is rebuilt. Local community is involved and original materials still worth using are utilized.

January 8, 2008

THE joglo (traditional Javanese house) with the limasan roof (a roof with four of its sides meeting at one point, a characteristic of the roof shape of a traditional Javanese house) in Kampung Kudusan, Jagalan, Kotagede, stands imposingly. Its four columns stand erect. The varnish shines. There is no trace that this 131-year-old house has been rebuilt from sheer ruins. Earlier, this devastated house lay in ruins after its four columns collapsed i

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