Yogyakarta has seena lot of important moments inIndonesia's history, from being a kingdom (Kraton) to briefly becoming Indonesia's capital city.
We have compiled pictures that can give you a glimpse ofhow Yogyakarta looked like decades ago.
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© Spaarnestad Photo Foundation - Dutch Governor General Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer visiting Kraton of Yogyakarta and meeting Sultan of Yogyakarta Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono VIII in 1937. (© Spaarnestad Photo Foundation)
© Spaarnestad Photo Foundation - Dutch Governor General Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer visiting Pakualaman in 1937. (© Spaarnestad Photo Foundation)
© Elisabeth Quirine Hesselink - Yogyakarta jamu street sellers circa 1920. (© Elisabeth Quirine Hesselink)
© Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) - Malioboro area circa 1931. (© Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV))
© Spaarnestad Photo Foundation - Wayang orang (human wayang) performance in Kraton of Yogyakarta, 1937. (© Spaarnestad Photo Foundation)
© Tropenmuseum - Female students attending a family welfare education class in a public school, 1943. (© Tropenmuseum)
© National Archive of Netherlands, Het Nationaal Archief - Traditional Kraton soldiers guarding the funeral of Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono VII's wife, 1931. (© National Archive of Netherlands, Het Nationaal Archief)
© National Archive of Netherlands, Het Nationaal Archief - Royal Tombs of Mataram kings during the funeral of Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono VII's wife, 1931. (© National Archive of Netherlands, Het Nationaal Archief)
© National Archive of Netherlands, Het Nationaal Archief - Train operating in Yogyakarta, 1910. (© National Archive of Netherlands, Het Nationaal Archief)
© Bettmann Archive/Corbis - Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX was crowned as Sultan of Yogyakarta with Dutch Central Java Governor Lucien Adam sitting next to him, 1940. (© Bettmann Archive/Corbis)
© Tropenmuseum - The now-famous Malioboro street, 1933.