Merdeka Palace
Neo-Palladian presidential palace where the national flag is raised every Independence Day.
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This guide to Merdeka Palace in Jakarta follows a single piece of cloth: the red and white flag Fatmawati, wife of President Sukarno, sewed from Japanese cotton in nineteen forty-five. It travels with Sukarno's aide Husein Mutahar through the Dutch seizure of Yogyakarta in December nineteen forty-eight, and back to the palace on the day it took the name Merdeka. Best heard on the front lawn, facing the flagpole.
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