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Interesting look back in time at Indonesia
This documentary, available to stream for free on the National Film Board website, is an interesting glimpse at what Indonesia looked like in the early 1970s. The viewer sees Jakarta as it is in the midst of a transition from a becak-(pedicab) based transportation to the the traffic-choked metropolis it has become. The documentary displays some village life, river commerce, and development progress as the government tries to turn the muddy land into a functional, paved country. The documentary also visits two cultural performances. Family planning is discussed multiple times, though it seems to have had little effect, as the population has grown to 250M at the time of this review. Not a groundbreaking documentary in terms of style or content, but all in all, a nice glimpse into a bygone era.
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- Mar 26, 2016
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