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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4623719, member: 2844&quot;]On the veranda, where you lounge in your sarung and kebaya.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have to add, about Indonesian colonial history:</p><p>Java and some other parts were British for a couple of years, after the demise of the VOC (Dutch East India Company). This was during the Napoleonic period, when the Netherlands were under French rule.</p><p>In general the Brits could not not get used of the mixed culture of Dutch-Indonesian society, and kept themselves apart from such an &quot;uncivilised bunch&quot; that wore local dress during the hot hours of the day <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" />.</p><p>The excellent young Jamaican-Scottish governor of Java, Raffles, was different though. He was interested in local culture and history, and respected the Indo-European community that was all-important in dealing with local kings.</p><p>Those few years, and the distance between the British colonials and the established colonial society, did not influence furniture making.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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