BURMA Burma is a small Asian nation bordering India and china. She was a part of India till 1937 and was a part of British imperialism as well. She was declared as an independent country by the Government of India Act, 1935. It has a land area of 261,789 square miles and a population of […]
Read More »INDONESIA Indonesia formally know as Netherland east India if an archipelago which is extending from Malayasia to new guinea it is a chain of islands which is stretching through 55 degrees of longitude on both sides of equator. In these islands the main products of trade are sugarcane, rubber, tea, coffee, quinine, palm oil, coconut […]
Read More »Thailand (Siam) Physical features of thailand : The country had an area of 2 Lakh sq.miles. it is the most rice producing through some parts are hilly and mountainous. The country has broadly 2 seasons dry and wet. The Population : In 1967 total population was 32 Lakh which consisted of Chinese, Muslim Malays and […]
Read More »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 […]
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