Alun-alun
Sign in to savethumb|right|300px|Wringin kurung kembar or the twin trimmed banyan trees enclosed within fences in the center of northern alun-alun of Yogyakarta, thumb|right|300px|The alun-alun in Batusangkar, [[Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), 1938]] thumb|300px|right|Monument dedicated to Karel Frederik Holle in the alun-alun of [[Garoet, 1901]]
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- Function
- Architectural convention
- Historical function
- Contemporary function
- Alon-alon errata
- See also
- Further reading
- References
- External links
thumb|right|300px|Wringin kurung kembar or the twin trimmed banyan trees enclosed within fences in the center of northern alun-alun of Yogyakarta, thumb|right|300px|The alun-alun in Batusangkar, [[Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), 1938]] thumb|300px|right|Monument dedicated to Karel Frederik Holle in the alun-alun of [[Garoet, 1901]]
An alun-alun (Javanese, correctly hyphenated but occurs occasionally without hyphen; also found as aloen-aloen, aloon-aloon, aloun-aloun, and erroneously alon-alon) is a large, central, open lawn square common to villages, towns and cities in Indonesia.
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