Museum to host play on Diponegoro

Museum to host play on Diponegoro

JAKARTA: The Jakarta Historical Museum, better known as the
Fatahillah Museum, in Kota, West Jakarta, will host a play titled
Diponegoro: A Historical Reconstruction on June 6. It will be the
third play staged at the museum, following Oentoeng: A Historical
Reconstruction last August and Batavia, 1629 in 2002.

Museum head Tinia Budiati said in a press release the reason
the museum was hosting a play about Diponegoro, a prince of the
Mataram kingdom, was because he had been detained at the Town
Hall by the Dutch colonial authorities in the 1800s. The Town
Hall was later converted into the Fatahillah Museum.

The play will be open to the public free of charge, but
audience members do have to pay the museum entrance fee. The play
will begin at 10 a.m. in the courtyard of the museum. -- JP