Some time ago I wrote about the curious case of Japanese colonial subjects in the Dutch East Indies. The interesting observation is that After concluding a Treaty of Trade and Navigation in 1896, the Netherlands and Japan recognised each other as most favoured nations, and subsequently the Tokyo government pressed the Dutch to accord its […]
Category: Culture
Jakarta’s Chinatown Twenty Years after 1998
Via Twitter, Christina Tjhin shared a remarkable video of a dragon dance in Glodok, an area long known as Jakarta’s Chinatown. Lion dance & Dragon dance performances by Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) at Jakarta's China Town (Petak Sembilan, Glodok) during the end of Chinese New Year's Festival #CapGomehGlodok2018 ❤️🇮🇩 Video courtesy of @ezkisuyanto pic.twitter.com/xM7fBqgm6e […]
