Museum Taman Prasasti
Open-air museum of colonial gravestones in a former Dutch cemetery, opened as a burial ground in 1797.
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This guide to Museum Taman Prasasti in Jakarta follows Pieter Erberveld, a wealthy outsider in Dutch East India Company Batavia, born in Siam and never on the Company payroll. It opens on a stone curse and turns on the treason accusation that reached him in seventeen twenty-one. Along the way you will meet an inheritance dispute and the Japanese occupation of nineteen forty-two. Best heard standing in front of the skull-topped monument among the colonial gravestones.
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