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Groote Postweg, Bandoeng Groet uit Bandoeng.
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Grand Post Office, Bandung. Greetings from Bandung.
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Under Dutch Colonial rule, the region of Bandung, Indonesia was transformed into a rich plantation and European Art-Deco-style resort in the 17th and 18th centuries. Following its independence from Dutch Colonial rule, the city of Bandung was named the provincial captial of West Java, Indonesia, which is about 75 miles south of Jakarta. Bandung Regency, the suburban area surrounding the city, has a population of about 3 million.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch East Indies company (VOC), transformed the fertile Bandung region into prosperous plantations. Later, it was developed into an exclusive Europen resort style with Art Deco-style hotels, private clubs, cafes, shops and theaters which were patronized by the wealthy plantation owners, along with businessmen and weekenders from the capital, Batavia. The title of "The Paris of Java" was given to the city.
Bandung's most famous architect of the 1920s and 30s, C.P.W. Schoemaker, designed a multitude of Art Deco buildings that combine European architecture with tropical ornamentation.
Archaeologists discovered the remains of Austropithecus or "Java Man" on the banks of Cikapunding river and near the old lake of Bandung.
There is a drink called Bandung made of pink-tinted milk flavored with sugar and rosewater that was invented by a tea-hating British man residing in British-occupied Singapore who called it, "banned dung" to reflect his distaste for tea. The drink is hard to find in Indonesia but is sold by street vendors in Singapore.
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