Stories from Deli

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…
John Anderson’s description of Deli

John Anderson’s Mission to Sumatra in 1823 He noted the areas of Delli, Bulu China, Langkat, Batubara, and Sirdang and met with leaders Kejuman Muda, rajah of Langkat; Sultan Panglima of Delli; Sri Sultan Ahmut of Bulu China ; Sultan Besar of Sirdang ; Nunku Bindahara and Pangulus of Batu Bara ; Jang de per…
The Chinese through Dutch Eyes

The Chinese through Dutch Eyes: Justus van Maurik’s perception of the Chinese in the Dutch East Indies, 1897. Ruben Leo Maria Peeters In 1870, the Culture System was abandoned, and the economy liberalized while the abolition of slavery increased demand for cheap labor. Koelies (Coolies) immigrated in great numbers to meet the labor shortages and…
Chinese Medan in History

By the beginning of the 20th century (1905), the number of Chinese in Medanhad reached 6,400The entire population of Medan (about 13,000 people, including about 950 Europeans, more than 2,000 indigenous people, Indians and others about 3,700 people. Furthermore, most of the urban population comes from other regions, forming a special immigration culture. According to…