Pasar Senen
Busy market complex by the railway station, once the haunt of poets, actors and film-makers.
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This guide to Pasar Senen in Central Jakarta follows the Seniman Senen, the poets, actors and journalists who made this rough market district their meeting place in the nineteen-fifties. It centres on Misbach Yusa Biran, a young film assistant who sat among them with a notebook, and touches Chairil Anwar, Sitor Situmorang and the all-night coffee of a Padang restaurant by the station. Best heard near the railway station end of the market.
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