Djakarta
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Founded by the Dutch in the seventeenth century, Djakarta resembles towns in The Netherlands.
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Last week President Johnson dispatched Veteran Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 70, to Djakarta to see what is left to save in Indonesian-American relations.
From Time Magazine Archive
After last October's coup, rumors flew through Djakarta that President Sukarno was either dead, seriously ill, in jail or in flight.
From Time Magazine Archive
After Viet Nam stepped up its troop withdrawal from Kampuchea, ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed to be host to peace talks in Djakarta next week between the warring sides.
From Time Magazine Archive
If independence is the shared future dream of Southeast Asia, poverty is the shared present condition that Bloodworth cannot escape, from the crate-size, tin-and-tar-paper shacks on Hong Kong's hillsides to the shantyvilles of Djakarta.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was stained with red paint and contained a single word printed in enormous letters: Djakarta.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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