Menteng
Leafy colonial-era garden suburb of tiled-roof villas, boulevards, parks and a heritage-protected plan.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Menteng in Jakarta reads the old garden suburb as a built object, starting with the roofs, doors and windows you can see past the gates. It follows the Dutch painter and architect Pieter Moojen and the plan he drew for the district in the nineteen tens, and the company that developed the land. Along the way it touches the lean years of the Depression and how builders squeezed more house onto the same plots. Best heard on a quiet street where you can see a full roofline above the walls.
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