Sukarno, Station To Station
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The railway station in Blitar, East Java is set to celebrate Indonesias founding president Sukarno. The station will be revamped in efforts to turn it into a city icon.
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Sutrisno was stunned one morning. The Surabaya native was greeted by unfamiliar sights as he stepped into the Blitar railway station a week ago last Wednesday. There were three jumbo-sized posters of Indonesias founding president Sukarno, plastered across the walls of the stations waiting hall and ticket counter area.
On each one of them, measuring 10 x 5 meters, Sukarno, born in Surabaya on June 6, 1901, a man who had proclaimed Indonesias indep
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