Man from the Banks of the Citarum

DJIAUW Kie Siong spent his entire life on the banks of the Citarum, the longest river in West Java. He was born in 1880 in Pisangsambo village, Tirtajaya subdistrict, Karawang. That neighborhood is located about 11 kilometers northwest from the house that was used by youths—assisted by some soldiers in the Defenders of the Homeland (Peta)—to ‘abduct’ Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta the day before the Proclamation of Indonesian

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