Jengki Style

Jengki, also known as Yankee style, was a post war modernist architectural style developed in Indonesia following its independence, popular between the late 1950s and early 1960s. It reflected the new influence of the United States on Indonesian architecture after centuries of Dutch colonial rule, and can be read as a tropical interpretation of American post war modernist suburban houses. The architect Johan Silas has suggested the style expressed the political spirit of freedom among Indonesians, translating into an architecture that deliberately differed from what the Dutch had built.