Ria Rio Park
Reservoir park with a jogging track, amphitheatre and a baobab tree on a grassy central mound.
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This guide to Ria Rio Park in East Jakarta follows a reservoir that began as a hole dug for something else entirely, and the company man whose name it still carries. It moves through the decades when nobody seemed to be in charge of the water, and into August two thousand thirteen, when a governor walked the banks and a former vice president's grandson came forward with papers. Best heard from the jogging track near the baobab on its mound.
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