The Batavian Eastern Railway Company (Dutch: Bataviasche Oosterspoorweg Maatschapij), abbreviated as BOS, was a railway company in

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. The railroad's route connected Batavia with Krawang via

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and

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. The

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author Tan Teng Kie wrote a

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poem about the construction of the railway line in the 1880s.Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony by Rudolf Mrázek page 257 In it, Tan talks in great detail about the organisation necessary for building the railway line, from the recruitment of coolies, to compensation paid out to local villagers, and on to the cooperation of local '' Landheeren'' (landlords), including

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, the ''Luitenant der Chinezen'' of Bekasi at the time.

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