Posing. Jakarta, Indonesia
Indonesian girl posing in front of Pancoran, a Chinese Indonesian restaurant in a traditional style, housed in a colonial art deco building. It is located in Glodok, the historical Chinatown of the old town of Jakarta.
Jakarta was as "Batavia" between 1600 and 1945 the capital of the Dutch colony of the "Dutch East Indies", as Indonesia was called then. Batavia soon developes as a Dutch colonial town, following Dutch models like Amsterdam complete with canals and gable houses, but adapted to the tropics. Its history as the colonial capital made it also a capital of centuries of human exploitation and racial segregation.
Posing. Jakarta, Indonesia
Indonesian girl posing in front of Pancoran, a Chinese Indonesian restaurant in a traditional style, housed in a colonial art deco building. It is located in Glodok, the historical Chinatown of the old town of Jakarta.
Jakarta was as "Batavia" between 1600 and 1945 the capital of the Dutch colony of the "Dutch East Indies", as Indonesia was called then. Batavia soon developes as a Dutch colonial town, following Dutch models like Amsterdam complete with canals and gable houses, but adapted to the tropics. Its history as the colonial capital made it also a capital of centuries of human exploitation and racial segregation.