Stories from Deli

Life in Deli

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…
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…
Kesawan 1905

Chong Lee & Co. W. Cornfield Goldenberg & Zeitlin Furniture maker Kong Soen Ho
Racism
Racism
Working in Tobacco plantation

Tobacco culture is the most complicated of agriculture of the Dutch East Indies, above all it is complicated in Deli, where people always work on a precious sheet, renowned as cover-1 sheet. Its organization determined the nature of the enterprise: the division of land, division of labor, division of buildings, composition of wages. How much simpler is the…
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…
Workers from Outside

Skip to content Then in the so well-thought out immigration of Chinese there was a soil richly suited for the growth of the weeds of the yard bosses, the kehtau’s. They wanted the service of the veteran, the laukeh, who in his village could boast of the land of Deli and provoked his acquaintances to…
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…
The rediscovery of Kota China

John Anderson first recorded Kota China in his mission to East Sumatra in 1823 . He noted that “at Kota China is a stone of a very large size , with an inscription upon it in characters not understood by any of the natives”Later an excerpt and comment upon Anderson ‘s note were published in…