Category: General
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Americans in Deli
MODERN PLANTATION CROPS OF THE EAST COAST OF SUMATRA Thus far we have mentioned only those products of Sumatra which have been produced by the Sumatrans themselves, and imported into the United States for many years. These exports were hardly a hint of what the soil could produce under Western methods. Even the greatest yields…
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Chang Puching
Chang Puching (also called Tjong Hau Liong) was the Chinese Consul General Titular in Medan, born in May 1885 in Meixian. China. He was the eldest son of the late Major of the Chinese Tjong Yong Hian and Lady Tjie She. The late the famous Major of the Chinese in Medan, Tjong A Fie, who…
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Aanslagen op assistenten
Attacks on assistants in 1923Sumatra Post 18-09-1923 The Planter reports the following attacks. The 21st May 1.1 Rijn van Alkemade’s assistant at Gloegoer had shortened a Chinese field coolie because of threading tobacco leaves of insufficient length. On his way home by eleven, the assistant was attacked from behind by a conscious coolie and pulled…
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Lim Sam Hap
Lim Sam Hap was a Lieutenant of the Chinese in Pangkalan Brandan, Beneden Langkat. He was appointed on 26 May 1900. A position he held until his death in 1906. Lim Sam Hap was a head tandil of a tobacco company in Deli. Queeny Chang wrote he was working at Soengei Mentjirim plantation owned by…
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Chinese in East coast of Sumatra
The East coast of Sumatra is divided into five divisions: Deli and Serdang, Langkat, Asahan, Bengkalis, Simeloengoen and the Karolanden.In the Bengkalis department we come under Riouw. In the 1860s this region was still a virtually unknown, sparsely populated, poor region. The revival came in 1863 when J. Nienhuys “discovered” Deli for tobacco culture. Since then, with…
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Lim Seng Moy
Here I show a settlement for the field time of Lim Seng Moy, who served with the Deli-Mij in 1916. Any coolie has his card there, as it is printed here, with a credit at the front, a debit at the back. So that’s the calculation about 8 months field time, after which he was…
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Deli Data 1863-1938
1863 Jacobus Nienhuys, on behalf of the Association Van den Arend cs, lands in Deli on 5 May; beginsjob recruitment of Chinese in Singapore. 1864 First shipment of 5o pn. tobacco, sold in Rotterdam; yield 48 cents. per half kg, fromkampong Mertoeboeng. – New Board structure with Auditors in Siak, Panei and Bila, Batoe Bahra and Deli (JAM of Cats…
Stories from Deli 