Suropati Park
Shady colonial-era garden with fountains, ASEAN sculptures and Sunday open-air violin rehearsals.
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This guide to Suropati Park in Jakarta's Menteng district follows the string players who gather under its trees on Sunday mornings. It reaches back to two thousand seven and a Jakarta music teacher's trip to the Netherlands, and to the families, from children to grandparents, who turned a city lawn into a rehearsal room. Along the way you meet a newcomer from East Java who once sold fried catfish on the streets. Best heard on a bench near the fountains on a Sunday.
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