Portal:Indonesia/POTW/32, 2010

The Gedung Merdeka, (formerly the Sociëteit Concordia building) on Braga Street in Bandung, where the Asian–African Conference was held in 1955, designed by Wolff Schoemaker. In 1922, Schoemaker became professor of the Technische Hoogeschool Bandoeng where he mentored Sukarno, who would become the first President of the Republic of Indonesia.