Portal:Indonesia/POTW/9, 2007

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The National Museum of Indonesia in Jakarta. The elephant (Indonesian: gajah) has given the museum a more popular name, Musium Gajah, instead of the official name. The building was first used for the office of the Batavia Society for Arts and Science who had interests in archaeological and cultural assets of the Dutch East Indies.

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