Khouw Tjeng Po, -titulair der Chinezen (born in 1838 — died in 1882) was a

Chinese-Indonesian Chinese Indonesians ( id, Orang Tionghoa Indonesia) and colloquially Chindo or just Tionghoa are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries. Chinese people and their Indonesian descendants have l ...

magnate and landlord in

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, capital of the Dutch East Indies (now

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

). Khouw was the youngest son of Khouw Tian Sek, ''Luitenant-titulair der Chinezen'' (died in 1843), a Batavia magnate and patriarch of the

Khouw family of Tamboen The Khouw family of Tamboen was an aristocratic landowning dynasty of bureaucrats and community leaders, part of the ''Cabang Atas'' or the Peranakan Chinese gentry of colonial Indonesia. Many members of the family held the rank of ''Majoor ...

. He was part of the ''

Cabang Atas The Cabang Atas (''Van Ophuijsen Spelling System'': Tjabang Atas) — literally 'highest branch' in Indonesian language, Indonesian — was the traditional Chinese establishment or gentry of Dutch East Indies, colonial Indonesia. They were the fa ...

'' or the Chinese gentry (''baba bangsawan'') of colonial Indonesia. He had two elder brothers, Khouw Tjeng Tjoan and Khouw Tjeng Kee, and two sisters, Khouw Giok Nio and Khouw Kepeng Nio. Khouw, his father and brothers held the rank of ''Luitenant der Chinezen'', awarded to high-ranking Chinese officials of the civil bureaucracy in the Dutch East Indies. The title had been granted on an honorary basis without administrative responsibilities. Prior to his Chinese lieutenancy, he had the hereditary title of ''Sia'' as the son of a Chinese officer. From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of colonial rule, the family was acknowledged as the wealthiest Chinese-Indonesian family in

. The died in 1882. He was married to Gouw Hok Nio. His son, Khouw Yauw Kie, became the first member of their family to serve on the Chinese Council of

; first in 1883 as , then in 1887 as a Kapitein der Chinezen. According to

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, a younger son - Khouw Oen Hoen - was the head of the family at the start of the twentieth century.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Khouw, Tjeng Po 1838 births 1882 deaths People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies People from the Dutch East Indies Indonesian people of Chinese descent Indonesian Hokkien people Kapitan Cina Khouw family of Tamboen Sia (title) Indonesian landlords