The City
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
We do not know how the city took shape. The story goes that its history began with the Dutch who build a fort and social barricade in the 16th century. Then, in 1945, the Indonesian Republic turned it into a capital, and inhabitants flocked in. Migration from the interior happened in waves. The city had no walled borders; it was not a ‘tuin’, the Dutch word that also means ‘enclosed space’.
Nobody wanted such a th
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