Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs

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VOLUME 295The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/vki Cars, Conduits, and KampongsThe Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920City, -1960 Edited by Freek ColombijnJoost Coté LEIDEN | BOSTONThis publication has been typeset in the multilingual "Brill" typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface.issn 1572-1892 isbn 978-90-04-28069-4 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-28072-4 (e-book) Copyright 2015 by the Editors and Authors. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff and Hotei Publishing. Koninklijke Brill nv reserves the right to protect the publication against unauthorized use and to authorize dissemination by means of offprints, legitimate photocopies, microform editions, reprints, translations, and secondary information sources, such as abstracting and indexing services including databases.Requests for commercial re-use, use of parts of the publication, and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill nv.This book is printed on acid-free paper.This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC 3.0) License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.The realization of this publication was made possible by the support of kitlv (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies).Cover illustration: front page issue 0 (1938) of the Vereniging Groot Batavia. HT147. I54C37 2014 307.7609598--dc23 2014028946 This book is dedicated to the fond memory of Saki Murakami. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication PrefaceThe origin of this book goes back to the conference on 'The decolonization of the Indonesian city in (Asian and African) comparative perspective' , held in Leiden, from 26 to 28 April 2006. Most of the articles were first presented as a paper at this conference, but a few articles were added later. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the conference received from the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust-en Genocidestudies (niod) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Section Social Sciences (nwo-MaGW) in The Hague, the Leids Universiteits Fonds (luf) in Leiden, and the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde (kitlv). The conference was one event of the research programme 'Indonesia across Orders' , which was coordinated by the niod. This programme was funded generously by the Dutch Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sport (Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn and Sport). We would also like to acknowledge the generous support of the kitlv, which has enabled our volume to be available as an open access publication.We feel deep sorrow for Saki Murakami, who passed away before this book was published. Despite her young age, Saki wa...