Selamat Datang Monument
Bronze couple waving flowers atop a fountain roundabout, built to greet the 1962 Asian Games.
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This guide to the Selamat Datang Monument in Jakarta follows Edhi Sunarso, a young independence fighter who first made art inside a Dutch prison, and the president whose attention his work later caught. It takes you to the build-up to the Asian Games of nineteen sixty-two, when Sukarno wanted the city's front door to greet the region. Best heard from the edge of the fountain pool, looking up at the waving pair.
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