Toko Merah
Red-fronted canal-side mansion from around 1730, once a naval academy, hotel and Chinese merchant's shop.
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This guide to Toko Merah in Jakarta's old town begins on the bank of the Kali Besar canal in October seventeen forty, as violence spreads through the Chinese quarters of Dutch Batavia. It follows Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, the East India Company official this house was built for, and the council feud he stood at the centre of. A second thread reaches into the nineteenth century and the Chinese community leader who gave the house its colour. Best heard on the canal side, facing the red facade.
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