Kebangkitan Nasional Museum
Former colonial medical school where students founded an early nationalist movement, now a history museum.
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This guide to the Kebangkitan Nasional Museum in Jakarta stays inside the old STOVIA medical school in nineteen oh eight, the year nine students founded Budi Utomo here. It follows their young chairman, Raden Soetomo, into trouble with his Dutch teachers, and the classmates who decided to stand with him. You'll also meet H. F. Roll, the director who willed this building into being. Best heard near the old classrooms and the student dormitory.
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