The Land And The People : Philippine island like south of Formosa are mountainous. In these islands there are many extinct and active volcanoes. The largest volcanoes are those of Luzon and Mindanao. The total area of these island is about ¼ of Japan in the western part of these island wet and dry seasons […]
Read More »Indonesian Nationalism If, as Lowenthal says, heritage preservation is about nationalism, does this work in a post-colonial state? A project contemporary to the Dutch Historic Urban Center project offers a useful comparison. Mrs. Suharto’s “Beautiful Indonesia in Miniature Park,” begun in 1971, was more overtly nationalistic. The project was inspired by Disneyland, and would be […]
Read More »Contemporary Identity How do these heritage projects work internally to create or shore up national identity? We can look both at the identity of the Dutch, who retain an interest in Indonesia’s colonial heritage because it is also their heritage, and also at the identity of the Indonesians, who’s colonized past is still part of […]
Read More »Tourism This first motivation is clearly economic – the city wants to attract tourist money by appealing to the heritage and intellectual interests of tourists, which may or may not reflect the cultural identity of the tourist. Tourists may be interested in the restored Dutch Historic Urban Center and the National Archives Building because of […]
Read More »History of Dutch Involvement in Indonesia As projects of heritage restoration necessarily involve history, let us turn now to a brief history of the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia. I will begin with the Dutch arrival, as the projects discussed below begin their engagement here. When the Dutch arrived on Java in the late sixteenth […]
Read More »Introduction This project explores two projects to preserve the footprint of the colonizing Dutch in post-colonial Jakarta, Indonesia, questioning their implications for contemporary Indonesia. The first, to restore and reinvigorate the historic (Dutch) center of Jakarta, preserves the urban morphology of the colonial period, which at first seems to contradict the post-colonial political situation. The […]
Read More »Quest for the Independence of Philippines Though the United States returned to power in the Philippines, the Filipinos did not want to be under colonial rule indefinitely. Time and again, Filipino leaders went to Washington to demand independence between 1919 – 1934. They constantly tried to make the United States aware that the Philippines would […]
Read More »The American Rule and Japanese Invasion The Spanish rule in Philippines ended in 1898, and thus the nationalists were successful in driving away the Spanish. With that, in 1899, Aguinaldo formed the Philippine Republic – a new, independent nation, and became its first president. The new government declared its independence on 12th June, 1898 and […]
Read More »The Philippine Revolution: (1896 – 1898/99) As the Philippines opened their markets, the Spanish began using the colony to extract raw materials and wreak havoc on the locals. However, development and awareness and the need for change also began seeking in the minds of the Filipinos. Jose Rizal, Graciano Lopez Jaena, and others, demanded the […]
Read More »History of the Philippines: (1521–1898) The Spanish Rule Much before the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the Philippines already had a considerable population that was settled in numerous barangays (villages). Early Filipino history does not prove the existence of any great dynasties, however, barangays had proper leaders who were known as datus […]
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