Jakarta History Museum
Former Dutch colonial town hall, courtroom and jail with dungeons beneath its portico.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Jakarta History Museum stands you on Fatahillah Square in front of the old Stadhuis, the Dutch East India Company's town hall of Batavia. It follows the building's double life as courtroom and jail, from what a modern historian told a night-walk crowd on this square to the cells beneath the front porch. Prince Diponegoro turns up along the way. Best heard facing the main entrance, before you head inside.
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