![]() ![]() The cry of Siaaaap (Attention!) rang out in the streets of the city in opposition not only to the Japanese occupiers but also the British who had replaced them, and the Dutch who waited in the wings to reclaim the island. In the 1940s, the workers and peasants of the city and its hinterland rose in struggle alongside the pemuda, the youth activists. Its tropical deco administrative buildings contrasted strongly with the shacks that housed its workforce, forming a cityscape of uneven hopes and aspirations. ![]() At one end, toward the west, sits the town of Bandung, the City of Flowers. The diverse island that is the heart of the Indonesia archipelago is home to a large number of coffee, tea, and quinine plantations-the main producers of wealth for the Dutch coffers. In 1955, the island of Java bore the marks not only of its three-hundred year colonial heritage but also its recent and victorious anticolonial struggle. ![]()
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