July
15
/ 2020
Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital and largest city, is a sprawling mass of cars, trucks, motorcycles and street vendors that can take hours to drive through. Jakarta is the gateway to the small town of Sukabumi in western Java and the strange ruins of Gunung Padang, the curious basalt megaliths on a hillside outside the town. The site was first mentioned in Rapporten van de Oudheidkundige Dienst (ROD, ‘Report of the Department of Antiquities’) in 1914. A Dutch historian named N. J. Krom is also said to have mentioned the site in 1949. The site was also visited by employees of the National Archaeology Research Centre at some point in 1979. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"75809","attributes":{"alt":"Gunung Padang (Image © David Hatcher Childress)","class":"media-image","height":"457","style":"width: 610px; height: 457px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Gunung
