Did you know archive for the Jakarta portal.
Did you know...
- ... that a key event leading up to the 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre in Jakarta was a Christian entering a mosque without removing his shoes?
- ... that Dutch clergyman W.R. van Hoëvell (pictured), after being forced to resign his post in Batavia in 1848, became a radical and eloquent spokesman against Dutch colonialism and slavery in the East and West Indies?
- ... that Karet Bivak, Jakarta's second-largest cemetery, holds more than 48,000 graves on just 16.2 hectares (40 acres)?
- ... that Tan Tjoen Tiat, the second Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia, advised the colonial government in 1870 that women should not act as guardians for minors?
- ... that the former building of the Chinese embassy in Jakarta was turned into a parking lot?
- ... that Saefullah was acting governor of Jakarta for 40 hours?