Jalan Pasar Baru
Historic covered shopping street of textile shops and tailors behind a colonial-era gate.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Jalan Pasar Baru in Jakarta follows the songwriter Titiek Puspa and the young singer Lilis Suryani, on an ordinary afternoon in nineteen sixty-three when one of them was being taken home to a crowded alley nearby. It touches on a pedicab ride, the censors of the Sukarno years, and a noodle shop that borrowed a famous name. Best heard standing near the old gate at the street's southern end.
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