What was Jakarta like in 1946?
This is a difficult question to answer because Jakarta has changed so much over the years. In 1946, Jakarta was the capital of the Dutch East Indies, which was a colony of the Netherlands. The city was very different from the Jakarta of today. It was much smaller and more rural.
The population of Jakarta in 1946 was only about 600,000 people. Most of the people who lived in Jakarta were Dutch or Indonesian…