KALIBESARTIMUR
1943 Jakarta, Indonesia
Kali Besar Timur, a canal-side street in the old town of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, photographed in 1943 during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, a district built up under earlier Dutch colonial rule.
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