Surabaya’s Living History

August 7, 2007

INDONESIAN historians seldom acknowledge the major contributions made by colonial-era Dutch, especially in the country’s infrastructure that gave rise to the country’s explosive economic development and expansion into international commerce. Equally as ungenerous are Dutch scholars who often fail to mention that it was Indonesian backs, sweat and ingenuity that actually built all the magnificent industrial archaeology that we see today in the

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