The city of Batavia, former name of Jakarta during the Dutch colonization, has played a pivotal role in the commercial and political history of the modern South-Eastern Asia, inheriting the secular maritime vocation of the Indonesian thalassocracies of Śrivijaya and Majapahit. The social and cultural stratigraphy of the city reveals the overlap of different influences and dominations, from the autochthonous Indonesian animist substratum to the Hindu and Buddhist spirituality and the Islamic faith, to the Dutch urban planning, not forgetting the strong presence of the, economically dominant, diasporic Chinese community. The aim of this essay is that of retracing the memory of the “Queen of the East”, as it was called in the colonial age, evidencing the superimposition of cultures and models, from the hinduization to the institution of the Republic of Indonesia.
Memorie della regina d’Oriente: Batavia
DURANTI, ANDREA
2008-01-01
Abstract
The city of Batavia, former name of Jakarta during the Dutch colonization, has played a pivotal role in the commercial and political history of the modern South-Eastern Asia, inheriting the secular maritime vocation of the Indonesian thalassocracies of Śrivijaya and Majapahit. The social and cultural stratigraphy of the city reveals the overlap of different influences and dominations, from the autochthonous Indonesian animist substratum to the Hindu and Buddhist spirituality and the Islamic faith, to the Dutch urban planning, not forgetting the strong presence of the, economically dominant, diasporic Chinese community. The aim of this essay is that of retracing the memory of the “Queen of the East”, as it was called in the colonial age, evidencing the superimposition of cultures and models, from the hinduization to the institution of the Republic of Indonesia.
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