Jakarta Old Town
Historic Dutch colonial quarter of canals, merchant houses and a town-hall square from the VOC era.
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This guide to Jakarta Old Town stands you beside the Kali Besar canal in Dutch Batavia, in the autumn of seventeen forty. It follows Adriaan Valckenier, the East India Company's governor-general, and the order he gave as unrest grew among the city's Chinese residents. Along the way you'll meet his rival Gustaaf van Imhoff, and the Chinatown of Glodok that grew outside the old walls. Best heard on the canal bank, facing the old merchant houses.
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