The city of Batavia was once the bustling heart of the Dutch East Indies, a port town with an abundance of pepper, nutmeg and other exotics bound for the west. Now it is a rundown northern district of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, stuffed with crumbling colonial mansions. A peek through the rotting shutters of one grand pile reveals tree trunks and a carpet of leaves. The building is popular with Indonesian film-makers, says Agus, a local guide: "They use it for spooky movies."
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