Province Central Java | Local time Tuesday 1:44 AM | |
Weather 23°C, Wind S at 3 km/h, 96% Humidity Points of interest Ambarawa Railway Museum, Gedong Songo, Kampoeng Rawa, Monumen Palagan Ambarawa, museum isdiman | ||
Amazing place for traveling ambarawa railway museum central java indonesia
Ambarawa is a market town located between Semarang and Salatiga in Central Java, Indonesia.
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- Amazing place for traveling ambarawa railway museum central java indonesia
- Map of Ambarawa Semarang Central Java Indonesia
- Japanese internment camps
- Tourist attractions
- References
Map of Ambarawa, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
Ambarawa was an important connecting rail link providing a cog railway connecting through Central Java as far as Yogyakarta via Magelang. The Semarang-Ambarawa-Magelang line was fully operational until 1977 . It is the site of the Museum Kereta Api Ambarawa (Ambarawa Railway Museum), which feature rack railway between Ambarawa to Bedono on the former Ambarawa-Magelang mainline. 19th-century Fort Willem I penitentiary complex and military barrack is located in Ambarawa.
Japanese internment camps
Ambarawa was the site of Japanese internment camps where up to 15,000 Europeans had been held during the Japanese occupation during World War II. Following Japanese surrender and the subsequent proclamation of Indonesian independence, fighting broke out in the Ambarawa area on 20 November 1945 between British troops evacuating European internees and Indonesian Republicans.