Merdeka Square, Jakarta
Vast open square of parks and plazas around a towering monument, scene of a pivotal 1945 rally.
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This guide to Merdeka Square in Jakarta starts with a measuring problem and moves back to the nineteenth of September, nineteen forty-five, when the field was called Ikada and a crowd gathered to hear Sukarno one month after independence was proclaimed. You'll meet the revolutionary Tan Malaka and a young activist named D. N. Aidit, long before his name meant something else. Best heard near the rally monument on the south side of the square.
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