Museum Sumpah Pemuda
Former student boarding house where the 1928 Youth Pledge was read, now a museum of youth movements.
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This guide to Museum Sumpah Pemuda in Jakarta looks at an ordinary rented house on Jalan Kramat Raya, owned by Sie Kong Lian and let to medical and law students in the nineteen twenties. It follows the boarders who argued politics here when campus forbade it, and one October night in nineteen twenty-eight when the house was asked to hold far more than it was built for. Look down at the old Dutch-era floor tiles as you listen.
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