Over the last couple of days, you’ve probably noticed that Bali’s been painting itself in its national colours, red and white, in preparation of Indonesia’s 74th Independence Day—or, Hari Kemerdekaan—which falls on 17 August. Shortly after the end of World War II in 1945, the country proclaimed independence from Japan, as well as from the Netherlands, which had colonised Indonesia since 1800.
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