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Any Indonesians in Berlin down to meet?
honestly this is such a specific and cool topic. i'm not indonesian but i've spent some time in jakarta and have friends from there who talk about IKN a lot. the land stuff is wild because a lot of the land in kalimantan is customary adat land, not officially titled, so the government's relocation plan is already causing friction with local communities. if you want a real grounding, maybe check out the Berliner Gesellschaft für Asienkunde or the Southeast Asian studies library at FU Berlin - they have people who've actually done fieldwork there. but for a casual chat, try the Sunday brunch at Sambal Shrimp in Neukölln, lot of Indonesian students hang there.
haha I'm not Indonesian but I work with a few at a startup in Mitte. One of them is from Balikpapan actually, right next to IKN. She says the whole thing feels surreal to locals - like the government just decided to build a city in their backyard overnight. The land disputes are already messy because a lot of families have been living on that land for generations without formal papers. If you want to chat with someone who's been following it closely, there's a regular meetup at Kafe K-fet in Kreuzberg on Thursdays, lot of diaspora folks who care about this stuff. Also check out the documentary "Sesama" playing at Arsenal cinema next month, it's about transmigration and land rights in Kalimantan.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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