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The guide explains that the 2 tunnels shown here were used as living quarters for the forced labourers. They will sleep and be provided with a single watery porridge meal per day. Those resisted the Japanese Army were locked up into prison tunnel. Some others were killed.
There were also tunnels used as sleeping quarters by Japanese Army. As explained, Japanese occupation of Indonesia only took 3 half years as compared to 350 years by the Dutches. But the evidence shows that the Japanese occupiers were more cruel than the Dutches.
To prevent echo sound bouncing off wall when talking in the tunnels, the Japanese Army created several vertical grooves on few walls of the tunnels.
We were also shown that the authority wanted to use some tunnels as cafe but as it was not financially viable, the renovation works of the proposed cafe had to be aborted.
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