sentences:  First he was in the "Bouwbeperkingscommissie" (1930) ('Building Works Committee'), and later to the "Stadsvormingscommissie" (1934) ('Town Planning Committee').In 1941, he was appointed to lecture at the School of Engineering at Bandung.During the Japanese occupation in Indonesia, Thomas Karsten was imprisoned at camp Baros in Cimahi near Bandung.