Setu Babakan
Lakeside Betawi heritage village with duck boats, fish cages, street food and folk performances.
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This guide to Setu Babakan in South Jakarta follows a lake that leads two lives at once, as a weekend playground of duck boats and horse carts and as a working fish farm for the Betawi families on its shore. It reaches back to the decision in two thousand to turn this neighbourhood into a home for Betawi culture, and drifts past the stalls, the open-air stage and the giant ondel-ondel puppets. Best heard from the lakeside path, facing the water.
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