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A wayang show was once made of this famous meeting yet there are no records of it here; if you ask you'll be told to go to Jakarta (in other words, forget it). Now this movement counts as members 83 nations; the last conference was held in Sri Lanka in 1976. Bandung is the technological capital of Indonesia. 30,000 students attend 17 higher educational institutions here, Indonesia's biggest technical schools, colleges and training centers. Visit the Bandung Institute of Technology, founded in 1920; spectacular ship-prowed Minangkabau architecture. Geological Museum, JI. Diponegoro 57, has a huge floor space of fossils, a pithecanthropus skull, rocks, minerals, models of volcanoes, maps, in all 400 geological displays. The Army Museum, JI. Lembong, near Istana Hotel; open in the mornings. Also you may visit the Blind and Deaf Institute.

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