Semarang:
Not Just for Business
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
It is time that Semarang sheds its image as a place just to do business. Although it is still a busy harbor town, trading, industrial and administrative center, it also has a romantically nostalgic historical district, impressive specimens of colonial architecture, a first-class history museum, a vibrant Chinatown, and a wonderful local cuisine.
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SEMARANG has always found itself caught in the middle—both geographically and commercially—between Java’s two other big ports. In a 1929 National Geographic article, W. Robert Moore disembarked on his way to Surabaya long enough for his ship to load a dozen lighters and exchange a few passengers: “Although Semarang proudly asserts that it is the third city in Java, Batavia and Soerabaja each greatly outdistance it in population and shippi
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