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:
Javanese man at the foot of stairs in the temple complex of Borobudur in Magelang, Central Java. Photographed by Kassian Cephas. 1872.
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