Jengki style

[2][3][4] Jengki style reflected the new influence of the United States on Indonesian architecture after hundreds years of the Dutch colonial rule.

For example, middle class houses in Kebayoran were designed with a square or rectangular layout, but the first floor is tilted forward to protect the facade of the lower level from the sun.

[4] Initially established under Dutch professors, they had to leave in the mid 1950s during the second wave of repatriation due to political turmoil in newly independent Indonesia.

Essentially, Jengki style rejected the strict cubic geometric forms that the Dutch had used before World War II.

Frances Affandi, the executive director of the Bandung Heritage Society, says that the structures are "... charming and noteworthy, but underresearched, underdocumented and underappreciated.”[3][4] Many Jengki style buildings have been demolished but examples remain across Indonesia, particularly in the capital Jakarta, and in the Javan cities of Bandung, Yogyakarta, Solo and Semarang, as well as outside Java – in Medan, Biak, Makassar and Balikpapan.