Lapangan Banteng Park
Historic square with a musical fountain pond, amphitheatre and liberation monument at its centre.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lapangan Banteng Park in central Jakarta digs below the lawns to the clay pits, waterholes and buffalo herds that gave the ground its first name, back in the sixteen hundreds. It passes through the parade-ground years and a Waterloo lion that locals never quite took seriously, and asks which animal the square is really named after. Best heard by the half-circle pond on a weekend evening.
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