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Glodok (Chinese: 裹踱刻; pinyin: guǒ duó kè) is an urban village of Taman Sari, West Jakarta, Indonesia. The area is also known as Pecinan or Chinatown since the Dutch colonial era, and is considered the biggest in Indonesia. Majority of the traders and residents of Glodok are Chinese descent. The area dates back to colonial times when in ...
Kim Tek Ie Temple, also called Vihara Dharma Bhakti, also known as 金德院 (Mandarin Jīn dé yuàn or Hokkien Kim Tek Ie), is a klenteng (a local term for a Chinese temple) located in the China Town neighborhood of Glodok, Jakarta, Indonesia. Completed in 1650, Vihara Dharma Bhakti is the oldest Chinese temple in Jakarta. [3] [4]
The Chinese of the Glodok district were severely affected during the riot period and accounts of rape and murder later emerged. [35] In the following years, including several terms of ineffective presidents, Jakarta was a center of popular protest and national political instability.
The Chinese, afraid that they would be thrown overboard to drown, rioted. [3] [20]: 99 Ten thousand Chinese were killed from 9 to 22 October 1740. [3] The few surviving Chinese inhabitants were moved to Glodok, outside the city walls, the following year. [21] In 1789, the Americans visited and were permitted through formal applications to trade ...
The riots became known in China as "Black May" (黑色的五月), named after a VCD documentary of the events released by the China Radio and Television Publishing House in October. [75] Compared to China's approach, Taiwan took on a more active role in demanding the trial of those involved in the violence and protection for victims. It ...
The 1740 Batavia massacre (Dutch: Chinezenmoord, lit. 'Murder of the Chinese'; Indonesian: Geger Pacinan, lit. 'Chinatown tumult') was a massacre and pogrom of ethnic Chinese residents of the port city of Batavia, Dutch East Indies, (present-day Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies.
Visitors were VOC officials and Chinese traders. [1] Population of this neighborhood are predominantly ethnic Chinese Indonesian like the adjacent Chinatown of Glodok. There are at least 3 Chinese temples within the neighborhood. Vihara Avalokitesvara. temple was built in 1936, has altars of Buddha and Guan Yin (Goddess of Mercy).
Several Asian Chinatowns, although not yet called by that name, have a long history. Those in Nagasaki, Kobe, Kuwana, and Yokohama, Japan, [18] Binondo in Manila, Hoi An and Bao Vinh in central Vietnam [19] all existed in 1600. Glodok, the Chinese quarter of Jakarta, Indonesia, dates to 1740. [20]