What is Before?

A. The Shaping of Riung Mungpulung and Alun-alun 
  1. Salakanagara (1st AD)
  2. Majapahit empire (12th AD)
B. Later Development of Alun-alun, and Riung Mungpulung as Locality
  1. Dutch colonization (17th AD)
  2. Old Order (1945 - 1967)
  3. New Order (1967 - 1998)
 Before is NOW
The long term historical situation in Asia shows a powerful resistance by imperial powers to any other kind of political organization that might have arisen as a viable or powerful alternatives.

The empire come and go, but the imperial mode of government remains the only viable system.
~Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-wei Yeo~
 In Southeast Asia, where many of the earliest experiments in modern urbanism were made, the relative weakness or even absence of a critical or democratic tradition drastically alters the development and the structure of urban space. ~Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-wei Yeo~