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      New Orders: Monas and Merdeka Square
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      New Orders: Monas and Merdeka Square

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      New Orders: Monas and Merdeka Square book

      ByKim Dovey
      BookBecoming Places

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2009
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 14
      eBook ISBN 9780203875001
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      Square’), where it is now surrounded by national institutions. The open spaces of

      the square distance the monument from the crowded city, but were infiltrated from

      the beginning by various prohibited users – beggars, prostitutes, illegal vendors and

      homeless people. These rhizomatic practices of everyday life tended to cut across

      the idealized nationalist symbolism of the square. The demise of Suharto’s ‘New

      Order’ in 1998 coincided with the rise of another kind of order in Merdeka Square

      which is now fenced and purified. This chapter explores the changing meanings and

      Jakarta was founded as a port city that was first colonized by the Portu-

      guese in the sixteenth century. The Dutch then established the city of Batavia as a

      walled city and the centre of the Dutch East Indies in the seventeenth century. As

      the city expanded southwards under French rule in the early nineteenth century,

      about 90 hectares of open field was laid out as a military training field named

      Champ de Mars (Field of War) (Heuken 1982: 45). After the Dutch resumed

      control, the square was renamed Koningsplein or King’s Square (Figure 10.1). A

      Governor General’s residence was built across the street to the north in 1820

      with a palace added in 1879. Various public institutions were constructed facing

      onto the square: the National Museum to the west (1868) and two Christian

      churches to the east (Heuken 1982: 45). The City Governor’s residence and office

      was added to the south in 1909. A railway line was cut through the eastern edge

      in the 1870s and a major train station in 1937. The vast square itself also began

      to fill with functions: a horse-racing track, market place, police station and

      telephone office. The police and telephone buildings defined an open space in

      front of the Governor’s Palace in the north-west corner which became the key

      centre of power in both symbolic and practical terms, framed by symbols and

      practices of authority, force and communications. When the Japanese took

      control from the Dutch in 1942 the square was used primarily as a sporting

      venue with an athletics stadium and sporting halls.

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