Over the past decades Indonesia has seen crowded, developed and 21st-century cities spring up all over the place. Just a few decades ago some were scarcely more than villages with few humble buildings around a train station.
The photos weve compiled below provide a glimpse into what the country was like before it industrialized and modernized:
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- Sawah Besar, Jakarta. Date unknown.
- Indonesian classroom. Date unknown.
- Indonesian classroom. Date unknown.
- Bogor Botanical Gardens, West Java. Date unknown.
- Garut, West Java. Date unknown.
- Post office in Jakarta. Date unknown.
- Sabang, Sumatra. Date unknown.
- Pasar Baru, Jakarta. Date unknown.
- Train station Jakarta Kota. 1970.
- Jalan Sudirman, Jakarta. 1971.
- Dirgantara Monument, Pancoran, Jakarta. Date unknown.
- A house in Menteng, Jakarta. 1930.
- A soldier in Braga street, Bandung, West Java. 1940.
- A street in Solo, Central Java. 1940.
- Helicak, tri-wheeled public transport made out of a Lambretta scooter, Jakarta. Date unknown.
- Train station in Bandung, West Java. Between 1920-1925.
- Schoolchildren. 1920.
- Javanese man at the foot of stairs in the temple complex of Borobudur in Magelang, Central Java. Photographed by Kassian Cephas. 1872.
- Warung (food stall) in Jakarta. 1915.
- Javanese woman painting batik on cloth. Date unknown.
- Surabaya, East Java. Date unknown.
- Semarang. 1915.
- Surabaya. 1925.
- Tram in Jakarta. 1920.
- Dutch tourists in Bali. 1939.
- Surabaya. 1940.
- Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Kennedy with President Soekarno. 1960.
- Glodok Chinatown, Jakarta. 1953.
- Dentist in Batavia, Jakarta. 1950.
- Jalan Sudirman, Jakarta. 1968.
- Automobile in Jakarta, 1965.
- Bandung cinema complex (now Palaguna), West Java. Date unknown.
- Alun-Alun, Bandung, West Java. 1960.
- Jalan Sudirman, Jakarta. 1969.
- De Orion Bioscoop (now Preanger Theatre) in Bandung, West Java. 1920.
- Muhammad Ali on a becak, Jakarta. 1973.
- The poster for Muhammad Ali’s fight in Jakarta. 1973.
- Madiun, East Java. 1973.
- Kuta beach, Bali. 1980.
- Hotel Indonesia Traffice Circle, Jakarta. 1980.
- Jalan Legian, Kuta, Bali. 1988.
- Chevrolet cars. Date unknown.
- Roads in Jakarta. Date unknown.
- An empty street. Date unknown.
- A house with Javanese characters painted above the door.. Location & date unknown.
- Railway in the making. Date unknown.
- Old bus in North Sumatra. Date unknown.
- Indonesian and Dutch Soldiers. Date unknown.
- Ujung Water Palace, Bali. 1925.
- Temple in Bali. Date unknown.
- Soldiers in Yogyakarta. December 1947.
- Taken from an Indonesian postcard from 1910.