THE white building with green curtains does not have the appearance of a museum. The only clue that the building—which stands among a row of shops in the Golden Road complex, Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD), Banten—stores a collection of items from the past is the red plank in front of it, with the writing “Museum Pustaka Peranakan Tionghoa” (Chinese-Indonesian Library Museum) written in golden ink.

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