Rebuilding Kotagede from Ruins
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
THE joglo (traditional Javanese house) with the limasan roof (a roof with four of its sides meeting at one point, a characteristic of the roof shape of a traditional Javanese house) in Kampung Kudusan, Jagalan, Kotagede, stands imposingly. Its four columns stand erect. The varnish shines. There is no trace that this 131-year-old house has been rebuilt from sheer ruins. Earlier, this devastated house lay in ruins after its four columns collapsed i
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