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250 Years in Old Jakarta

Author : Sven Verbeek Wolthuys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646694594
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book 250 Years in Old Jakarta written by Sven Verbeek Wolthuys and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 200 years ago the Bik family left the Netherlands and crossed oceans to seek a new life in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. They were draughtsmen, artists, and government officials, and eventually wealthy landowners. Tanah Abang, the area of Batavia (now Jakarta) where they settled, is an intrinsic part of their story. 250 YEARS IN OLD JAKARTA is for those who love Jakarta's history and are searching for its lost past. It describes the adventures and tragedies of a Dutch family in colonial Jakarta, with emphasis on the family's prominent and influential presence in Tanah Abang. While 98% of the historic buildings of Tanah Abang sadly no longer exist today, the many unique and never before published pictures in this book not only provide a glimpse into a bygone era, but also give the history of Tanah Abang and Jakarta a deeply personal perspective. Sven Verbeek Wolthuys (1968), a direct descendant of the Bik family, has been researching Jakarta's history for over 30 years. In this book he has brought together a vibrant mix of his family's stories and pictures, from the arrival of his very first ancestor in Batavia in 1776 to the current remnants of his family, the few dozen Bik tombstones still found in and around Jakarta today.

Jakarta

Author : Susan Abeyasekere
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jakarta written by Susan Abeyasekere and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This general history of the magnificent city of Jakarta traces the rise of this city through four centuries from its origins as a company town, through the Japanese occupation, to Sukarno's rule and the era of the New Order government.

Jakarta: History of a Misunderstood City

Author : Herald van der Linde
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814928011
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Jakarta: History of a Misunderstood City written by Herald van der Linde and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jakarta is a fascinating city. It's attraction lies in the incredibly wide variety of people - Indonesians, Chinese, Indians, Arabs and Europeans - who have arrived over the centuries, bringing with them their own habits, folklore and culture. Their descendants have resulted in a vibrant mix of people, most of them making a living along the thousands of small lanes and alleys that criss-cross the kampungs of this enormous city. Artefacts indicate that this area was inhabited from the fifth century. Hundreds of years later, a small trading post on the coast named Kelapa was founded and eventually grew into the mega-city of Jakarta with over twenty million people. This book provides a unique look at the history of Jakarta through the eyes of individuals who have walked its streets through the ages, revealing how some of the challenges confronting the city today - congestion, poverty, floods and land subsidence - mirror the struggles the city has had to face in the past.

Greetings from Jakarta

Author : Scott Merrillees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789793780887
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Greetings from Jakarta written by Scott Merrillees and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Old City of Jakarta - Today

Author : Richard Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780921333487
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Old City of Jakarta - Today written by Richard Mann and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Certain Age

Author : Rudolf Mrázek
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392682
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book A Certain Age written by Rudolf Mrázek and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Certain Age is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and educated at Dutch schools. From the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era, the national revolution, and well into independence after 1945, these intellectuals injected their ideas of modernity, progress, and freedom into local and national discussion. When Mrázek began his interviews, he expected to discuss phenomena such as the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. His interviewees, however, wanted to share more personal recollections. Mrázek illuminates their stories of the past with evocative depictions of their late-twentieth-century surroundings. He brings to bear insights from thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Bertold Brecht, Le Corbusier, and Marcel Proust, and from his youth in Prague, another metropolis with its own experience of passages and revolution. Architectural and spatial tropes organize the book. Thresholds, windowsills, and sidewalks come to seem more apt as descriptors of historical transitions than colonial and postcolonial, or modern and postmodern. Asphalt roads, homes, classrooms, fences, and windows organize movement, perceptions, and selves in relation to others. A Certain Age is a portal into questions about how the past informs the present and how historical accounts are inevitably partial and incomplete.

A Short History of Indonesia

Author : Colin Brown
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781865088389
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Indonesia written by Colin Brown and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in the Short Histories of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Indonesia and its peoples, from ancient origins to the present day.

The Old City of Jakarta Today

Author : Richard I. Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780921333784
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Old City of Jakarta Today written by Richard I. Mann and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Condemned Communities Forced Evictions in Jakarta

Author :
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Condemned Communities Forced Evictions in Jakarta written by and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2006 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, Jakarta's security forces demolish the homes of thousands of people and destroy the residents' personal property. These evictions are carried out with little notice, due process, or compensation. Far too often, the process involves excessive use of force against those facing eviction. Many thousands more of Jakarta's poor live in fear that one day the bulldozers will arrive at their community. Forced evictions--the removal of people against their will from the homes and land they occupy, without access to legal and other protections--deprive individuals of some of their most fundamental human rights and needs: adequate housing and protection of their homes. Based on more than one hundred interviews, Condemned Communities documents the human rights consequences of evictions being carried out by the Jakarta regional government. In some cases the land is being claimed for infrastructure projects, while in other instances the government attempts to justify the forced evictions in the name of public order and removing trespassers. Yet many of the condemned communities have lived on the land for years or even generations. Many evictions can be seen as part of a wider government pattern to intimidate the urban poor and deter urban migration. This report illustrates that, far from improving the quality of life in Jakarta, the forced eviction of communities succeeds only in moving the problem to other parts of the city at great human cost.

Jakarta: City of history

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Jakarta: City of history written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Empire of the East

Author : Norman Lewis
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480433306
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book An Empire of the East written by Norman Lewis and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVFrom Sumatra to East Timor and beyond, An Empire of the East is a fascinating look at a rapidly changing island nation In An Empire of the East, renowned travel essayist Norman Lewis takes readers to Indonesia, where some thirteen thousand islands in the South Pacific are each colored with their own unique cultures and histories. With more than three hundred ethnic groups speaking two hundred fifty languages, the warmth and generosity of the island people is matched only by the country’s complicated political and social landscape. Lewis’s account tells of a country whose remarkable cultures—as well as its flora and fauna—are increasingly shaped by the waves of modernity and global tourism./div/div

Military Politics, Islam, and the State in Indonesia

Author : Marcus Mietzner
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812307885
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Military Politics, Islam, and the State in Indonesia written by Marcus Mietzner and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a decade of research in Indonesia, this book provides an in-depth account of the military's struggle to adapt to the new democratic system after the downfall of Suharto's authoritarian regime in 1998. Unlike other studies of the Indonesian armed forces, which focus exclusively on internal military developments, Mietzner's study emphasizes the importance of conflicts among civilians in determining the extent of military involvement in political affairs. Analysing disputes between Indonesia's main Muslim groups, Mietzner argues that their intense rivalry between 1998 and 2004 allowed the military to extend its engagement in politics and protect its institutional interests. The stabilization of the civilian polity after 2004, in contrast, has led to an increasing marginalization of the armed forces from the power centre. Drawing broader conclusions from these events for Indonesia's ongoing process of democratic consolidation, the book shows that the future role of the armed forces in politics will largely depend on the ability of civilian leaders to maintain functioning democratic institutions and procedures.

Jakarta

Author : John Lesley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781761400735
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Jakarta written by John Lesley and published by . This book was released on 2024-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Starting with an early settlement dating from about 1600 years ago, Jakarta has grown to become a densely populated city and the capital of Indonesia. Jakarta has always been a centre for trade. The old capital, Batavia, was the main port city for the Dutch East India Company, and was known around the world as a source of wealth through commerce."--Publisher.

Beyond Belief

Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307828417
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Belief written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant. . . . A powerfully observed, stylistically elegant exploration." --The New York Times A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "The book's strength lies in Naipaul's extraordinary ability as a storyteller to draw striking portraits of a cross section of individuals."--The Boston Globe Fourteen years after the publication of his landmark travel narrative Among the Believers, V. S. Naipaul returned to the four non-Arab Islamic countries he reported on so vividly at the time of Ayatollah Khomeini's triumph in Iran. Beyond Belief is the result of his five-month journey in 1995 through Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia--lands where descendants of Muslim converts live at odds with indigenous traditions, and where dreams of Islamic purity clash with economic and political realities. In extended conversations with a vast number of people--a rare survivor of the martyr brigades of the Iran-Iraq war, a young intellectual training as a Marxist guerilla in Baluchistan, an impoverished elderly couple in Teheran whose dusty Baccarat chandeliers preserve the memory of vanished wealth, and countless others--V. S. Naipaul deliberately effaces himself to let the voices of his subjects come through. Yet the result is a collection of stories that has the author's unmistakable stamp. With its incisive observation and brilliant cultural analysis, Beyond Belief is a startling and revelatory addition to the Naipaul canon. "Highly accomplished. . . . Another display of Naipaul's remarkable talent." --The Independent (London)

Simplicity Parenting

Author : Kim John Payne
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345516982
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Simplicity Parenting written by Kim John Payne and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s busier, faster society is waging an undeclared war on childhood. With too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time, children can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even be diagnosed with behavioral problems. Now internationally renowned family consultant Kim John Payne helps parents reclaim for their children the space and freedom that all kids need for their attention to deepen and their individuality to flourish. Simplicity Parenting offers inspiration, ideas, and a blueprint for change: • Streamline your home environment. Reduce the amount of toys, books, and clutter—as well as the lights, sounds, and general sensory overload. • Establish rhythms and rituals. Discover ways to ease daily tensions, create battle-free mealtimes and bedtimes, and tell if your child is overwhelmed. • Schedule a break in the schedule. Establish intervals of calm and connection in your child’s daily torrent of constant doing. • Scale back on media and parental involvement. Manage your children’s “screen time” to limit the endless deluge of information and stimulation. A manifesto for protecting the grace of childhood, Simplicity Parenting is an eloquent guide to bringing new rhythms to bear on the lifelong art of raising children.

The United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962-1969

Author : John Saltford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113578597X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962-1969 written by John Saltford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of the international community in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s and questions whether or not the West Papuan people ever genuinely exercised the right to self-determination guaranteed to them in the UN-brokered Dutch/Indonesian agreement of 1962. Indonesian, Dutch, US, Soviet, Australian and British involvement is discussed, but particular emphasis is given to the central part played by the United Nations in the implementation of this agreement. As guarantor, the UN temporarily took over the territory's administration from the Dutch before transferring control to Indonesia in 1963. After five years of Indonesian rule, a UN team returned to West Papua to monitor and endorse a controversial act of self-determination that resulted in a unanimous vote by 1022 Papuan 'representatives' to reject independence. Despite this, the issue is still very much alive today as a crisis-hit Indonesia faces continued armed rebellion and growing calls for freedom in West Papua.

Doing Business 2020

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464814414
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Doing Business 2020 written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.