Going back further in time, we find court records from the royal towns of Demak and Cirebon hinted that ancestors of the ruling classes had Chinese blood. There are also indications of trade between the ports of North Java, such as Surabaya, Gresik and Tuban, and China dates back to the 9th century. came 700 years before the Dutch, that's a whole lot of history waiting to be told.
As in Southeast Asia, these distant pioneers set out in search of wealth and often never came back. Single men work hard, they would settle down and get married on the spot. When they became rich they would send money home to their families and always at the back of her mind, was that the term would one day they return home. To their filial duty to be buried with their ancestors.
It was not always work and by the time the Dutch and other Europeans their bows to the eastern seas started poking, the Chinese were at the heart of a major maritime trading empire from the coastal cities of India , down the street from Malaka, take on the north coast of Java, contaminated in the wealth Siam and along the pirate waters off the southern coast of China.
business was trade, was the language in those early days, Malay, Farsi, Portuguese, but it opened the Chinese, the doors and the spotted markets.
in the 16th century was Banten in the middle of this Emporium, fat and rich held the purse out of the proceeds of pepper and spices and the Chinese. Today Banten Lama stands as a solemn reminder that exciting, unhealthy days. A Chinese temple stands next to a cumbersome Dutch fortress formerly overlooked the busiest port in the east. But now, as the dealer and the vagabonds who filled this medieval bazaars, the oceans have gone. The ruins of a sultan's palace opposite a mosque with his Chinese designed minaret remains a reminder of early Singapore.
At the same time, the Chinese settlement by the Ciliwung was a back water, selling Arak sailors who passed through. The area was once where the Pajajaran Kingdom communicated to the outside, perhaps the Chinese had to rise and fall of the river seen in importance, setting out noise to hardy men sale around the eastern waters on dangerous missions.
The Jakarta grew under Dutch influence, the Chinese population has, but also in the early 17th century there was trouble, what the Chinese was perceived to be special privileges. Europeans who studied their luck arrived found that the Dutch authorities protected the interests of the Dutch East India Company monopoly and they could not get a foot in the door to obtain commercially. The Chinese, however, were free to do so, and that upset the newcomers who wanted their own piece of the pie. In those early years, Jakarta, then as Batavia course is known, a Chinese city was considered under Dutch rule.
Until 1740 the Chinese than ever flourished. Banten faded and died, passed trafficking and money East. Masts filled Jakarta Bay as ships came back and forth and in the heart of the business, the Chinese were. It was their golden era, but never take the time of the premium. The riots and pogrom of 1740 killed many thousands of Chinese and the rivers ran red. Angke in fact means only that Red River, and the name of the river, this reminds grimly 267 years ago days.
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