Taman Fatahillah
Colonial city hall square where Dutch Batavia once held public executions, now a lively plaza.
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This guide to Taman Fatahillah in Jakarta returns to the square's years as the Stadhuisplein, the open ground in front of colonial Batavia's city hall, where the Dutch East India Company carried out its sentences in public. It follows Jakarta historian Asep Kambali through the punishments of the age, and Prince Diponegoro, the Javanese nobleman held in this building in eighteen thirty. Best heard facing the long white building on the south side of the square.
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