CONSTRUCTING AND CONTESTING THE NATION: THE USE AND MEANING OF SUKARNO'S MONUMENTS AND PUBLIC PLACES IN JAKARTA

Architecture and urban design are often powerful expressions of political desires to support and legitimise specific regimes. While such concepts of national identity are established through a constellation of urban forms, national identity is always contested. Places may be used and interpreted in ways that differ from what is intended. This book examines the role of Sukarno?s monuments and public places and how their meanings and uses have been transformed under successive regimes.