Wayang Museum
Puppet museum holding thousands of wayang on the site of a colonial church and its burial ground.
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This guide to the Wayang Museum in Jakarta's old town begins on twenty-one September sixteen twenty-nine, when the Dutch governor-general Jan Pieterszoon Coen died suddenly while a Javanese army besieged the city. It follows the rival Dutch and Javanese accounts of that death, a woman agent of the kingdom of Mataram, and the question of whose body really lies beneath the floor of this puppet museum. Stand near the memorial plate inside before you press play.
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