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Liem Koen Hian
Liem Koen Hian (3 November 1897 – 4 November 1952) was an Indonesian journalist and politician. He was born in Banjarmasin, the son of a local peranakan Chinese business owner, Liem Ke An. He attended the Hollands-Chineesche School to class 6, when he was reportedly expelled after coming into conflict with a Dutch teacher. He subsequently worked as a business clerk for Royal Dutch Shell in Balikpapan before returning to Banjarmasin to work for a local newspaper. The name of the newspaper is not known, but may have been ''Penimbangan'', ''Pengharepan'', or ''Borneo Post''. In 1915 he moved to Surabaya where he worked in the newspaper ''Tjhoen Tjhioe''. In 1917 he published a monthly magazine, ''Soe Liem Poo'', but that title survived only briefly. Liem then moved to Aceh to carry out trade. At the end of 1918, Liem move to Padang to become editor of ''Sinar Soematra''. He held that post until 1921, when he was invited by The Kian Sing to become editor of ''Pewarta Soerabaia''. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan (surname)
Pān is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the East Asian surname . It is listed 43rd in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is romanized as P'an in Wade–Giles; Poon, Phoon, Pon, or Pun in Cantonese; Phua in Hokkien and Teochew. In 2019 it was the 36th most common surname in Mainland China. 潘 is also a common surname in Vietnam and Korea. It is romanized Phan in Vietnamese (not to be confused with Phạm) and Ban or Pan in Korean. Distribution Pan 潘 is the 37th most common surname in mainland China and the 31st most common surname in Taiwan. None of the romanizations of Pan 潘 appeared among the 1000 most common surnames during the 2000 US census.United States Census Bureau.Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000". 27 Sept 2011. Accessed 29 Mar 2012. Origins As with many Chinese surnames, the origins of the Pan are various and sometimes legendary. One origin was a clan name taken from a fief north of Shaanxi gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chung Hwa Hui
Chung Hwa Hui (1928–1942; the 'Chinese Association'), also known as CHH, was a conservative, largely pro-Dutch political organisation and party in the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia), often criticised as a mouthpiece of the Cabang Atas, colonial Chinese establishment. The party campaigned for legal equality between the colony's Chinese Indonesians, ethnic Chinese subjects and Europeans, and advocated ethnic Chinese political participation in the Dutch colonial state. CHH was led by scions of the 'Cabang Atas' gentry, including its founding president, Hok Hoei Kan, H. H. Kan, and supported by ethnic Chinese conglomerates, such as the powerful Kian Gwan multinational. The party's close relationship with, and allegiance to, the Dutch colonial state is clearly demonstrated by the fact that CHH was represented in the Volksraad (Dutch East Indies), Volksraad – the embryonic legislature of the Dutch East Indies – all through the party's entire existence from 1928 until 1942. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo
Soekiman Wirjosandjojo ( EYD: Sukiman Wiryosanjoyo; 19June 1898 – 23July 1974) was an Indonesian politician and physician who served as prime minister of Indonesia from 1951 until 1952. A member of the Masyumi Party, he also served as the party's first chairman. Born into a merchant family in Surakarta, Soekiman was educated as a physician at Batavia's STOVIA medical school and at Amsterdam University. Having served as chairman of the '' Perhimpoenan Indonesia'' association while in the Netherlands, he returned to Java and began participating in politics while working as a doctor. He was active within the Islamic political organization Sarekat Islam, although he was expelled in 1933 due to a dispute and founded his own Islamic political party. During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, he was active within the Pusat Tenaga Rakyat propaganda organization, and in 1945 was appointed a member of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakarta
Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta is the largest city in Southeast Asia and serves as the diplomatic capital of ASEAN. The city is the economic, cultural, and political centre of Indonesia. It possesses a province-level status and has a population of 10,609,681 as of mid 2021.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022. Although Jakarta extends over only , and thus has the smallest area of any Indonesian province, its metropolitan area covers , which includes the satellite cities Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, South Tangerang, and Bekasi, and has an estimated population of 35 million , making it the largest urban area in Indonesia and the second-largest in the world (after Tokyo). Jakarta ranks first among the Indonesian provinces in human development index. Jakarta's busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanah Abang
Tanah Abang is a district of Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The district hosts the biggest textile market in Southeast Asia, Tanah Abang Market. It hosts Bung Karno Stadium, in Kelurahan Gelora, and the western half of the largely skyscraper-dominated Sudirman Central Business District. Namesakes It is also the name of two historic roads in Kelurahan South Petojo, Gambir District. One of these roads, Tanah Abang 1, hosts the old Dutch Cemetery, now partly a museum '' Museum Taman Prasasti'' burial place of Olivia Mariamne Devenish, Eurasian wife of Stamford Raffles. The city's important Textile Museum is, contrary to as is colloquially stated, in West Jakarta (Kelurahan Kota Bambu Selatan, Palmerah District) just over the western border. Tanah Abang market Tanah Abang market is in the ''Kelurahan'' Kebon Kacang thus next to Tanah Abang station, on the western edge. The market has been known to exist since 1735. The market is the main forum for textile trade orders in Indone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renville Agreement
The Renville Agreement was a United Nations Security Council-brokered political accord between the Netherlands, which was seeking to re-establish its colony in South East Asia, and Indonesian Republicans seeking for Indonesian independence during the Indonesian National Revolution. Ratified on 17 January 1948, the agreement was an unsuccessful attempt to resolve the disputes that arose following the 1946 Linggadjati Agreement. It recognised a cease-fire along the Status Quo Line (Status Quo lijn) or so-called "Van Mook Line", an artificial line which connected the most advanced Dutch positions. The agreement is named after , the ship on which the negotiations were held while anchored in Jakarta Bay. Background On 1 August 1947 an Australian resolution in the United Nations Security Council calling for a ceasefire between the Dutch and Indonesian Republican forces was passed. Dutch Lt. Governor-General Van Mook gave the ceasefire order on 5 August.Ide Anak Agung (1973), pp. 34 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badan Penyelidik Usaha Persiapan Kemerdekaan Indonesia
The Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence ( id, Badan Penyelidik Usaha-usaha Persiapan Kemerdekaan, BPUPK; ja, 独立準備調査会, Hepburn: , Nihon-shiki / Kunrei-shiki: ), sometimes referred to as the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Indonesian Independence ( id, Badan Penyelidik Usaha-usaha Persiapan Kemerdekaan Indonesia, BPUPKI), was an organization set up in March 1945 by the Japanese military authority in Java during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies as the initial stage of the establishment of independence for the area under the control of the Japanese 16th Army. The BPUPK held two plenary meetings; the first was from 28 May to 1 June 1945 and the second was between 10 and 17 July 1945. Background Realising Japan was losing the war, on 7 September 1944, in a session of the Japanese parliament, Prime Minister Kuniaki Koiso promised independence for the utch'East Indies' at "sometime in the future". The Japanese navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soetomo
Raden Soetomo (30 July 1888 – 30 May 1938) was a medical doctor, and politician in the Dutch East Indies. He was born in East Java, and went on to study medicine. While still studying, he was one of three founders of the Budi Utomo Javanese nationalist organisation. From 1919 to 1923, studied medicine at Amsterdam University and later married a Dutch woman. After returning from the Netherlands, he worked as a doctor in Sumatra and Surabaya. He also established a number of "study clubs" to raise awareness of nationalism. In 1935, he was one of the founders of the Parindra nationalist party, and led it until his death. After his death he was named a National Hero of Indonesia National Hero of Indonesia ( id, Pahlawan Nasional Indonesia) is the highest-level title awarded in Indonesia. It is posthumously given by the Government of Indonesia for actions which are deemed to be heroic, defined as "actual deeds which can b .... References {{Authority control National Heroes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much-larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java. The founding of Batavia by the Dutch in 1619, on the site of the ruins of Jayakarta, led to the establishment of a Dutch colony; Batavia became the center of the Dutch East India Company's trading network in Asia. Monopolies on local produce were augmented by non-indigenous cash crops. To safeguard their commercial interests, the company and the colonial administration absorbed surrounding territory. Batavia is on the north coast of Java, in a sheltered bay, on a land of marshland and hills crisscrossed with canals. The city had two centers: Oud Batavia (the oldest part of the city) and the relatively-newer city, on higher ground to the south. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoa Liong Gie
Phoa Liong Gie Sia (: born in Bandung on June 4, 1905 – died on January 14, 1983 in Switzerland) was an Indonesian-born Swiss jurist, politician and newspaper owner of the late colonial era in the Dutch East Indies. Background and education He was born in 1905 into a prominent family of Peranakan Chinese roots, part of the ''Cabang Atas'' or the Chinese gentry of colonial Indonesia. His great-grandfather, Phoa Tjeng Tjoan, served as ''Kapitein der Chinezen'' of Buitenzorg (now Bogor) from 1866 until 1878. This was a post in the colonial civil administration with political and legal jurisdiction over the local Chinese community. Phoa was styled 'Sia' from birth as the descendant of a Chinese officer. Phoa was also a great-nephew of the prominent community leader and landlord, Phoa Keng Hek ''Sia''. The younger Phoa was educated at the ''Europeesche Lagere School'' (European lower school) in Garut, and at the '' Hogere Burgerschool'' (higher civic school) in Batavia. Both ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Yamin
Mohammad Yamin (24 August 1903 – 17 October 1962) was an Indonesians, Indonesian poet, politician and National Hero of Indonesia, national hero who played a key role in the writing of the draft preamble to the Constitution of Indonesia, 1945 constitution. Early life and education Yamin was born on 28 August 1903 in Talawi, Sawahlunto on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. He was educated at Dutch schools for natives, firstly at a Hollandsch-Inlandsche School, then at a Algemene Middelbare School in Yogyakarta. In 1932 he obtained a law degree in Jakarta. In the early 1930s, Yamin was active in journalist circles, joining the editorial board of the newspaper ''Panorama'', together with Liem Koen Hian, Sanusi Pane and Amir Sjarifuddin. In mid-1936, together with his colleagues Liem, Pane and Sjarifuddin, Yamin started another newspaper, ''Kebangoenan'' (1936–1941), which—as with ''Panorama''—was published by Phoa Liong Gie's Siang Po Printing Press. Literary legacy Yamin be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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