Sugar Towns (Indonesia)
The Javanese sugar towns were originally erected by the Dutch mainly for the purposes of producing white sugar that could be shipped to Europe and then distributed to other takers. After the Dutch left, the factories continued to produce sugar, albeit under less favourable circumstances. Nowadays the Indonesian sugar industry has many facets; some truly modern, some still harking back to the days when the Dutch were in charge. The Polish photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski documented the sugar towns in Java, starting his journey from the Perayaan Buka Giling, the traditional sugar festival that is intended to bring good luck for the coming production season.
