Kampong Makassar was one several internment camps in the island of

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near Batavia (present-day

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) in which the Japanese interned enemy civilians, mostly Dutch, after the

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fell to Japanese forces in 1942. Between January and October 1945, Kampong Makassar functioned as prisoners of war, civilian, and relief camps respectively.

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