Budak Kampung at Batavia

Jakarta, 1 Nov 2009 - Probably not many people know Kampong Bandan. Those who know anything which seems to initiate village located on the northern Jakarta as a dump.

And in this village there is a story left when Jakarta was called Batavia.

Based on the history books record, explained why the origin of this area called Kampong Bandan. First, the village located near Sunda Kelapa Harbor is expected to come from the Banda, an island in the Moluccas.

There is a set of communities identified Banda, at the time of Batavia that inhabited this region. The reference is called common considering other cases have similarities such as the name China as a Chinatown ward, or a place name or excise taxes (duties) is called the Customs, and the township people Pekojan Koja (Arabic).

Banda also be derived from Banda in Javanese means bond dibanda (tied). This is associated with events that are often seen by residents in the occupation of Japan.

When the Japanese often take the rebellion with his hands tied through this village to be executed in Ancol.

The third possibility, namely that Banda is the pronunciation of the word Pandan. Because in the past this village filled with pandanus trees so that people calling became Kampung Pandan Village Bandan.

Whatever the origins of the name of this place, which must mention the history of this village is the slave camps of the Banda Islands, Maluku, when JP Coen conquered the island in 1621.
Massive Pembantain Coen done. Those who survived carried off to Batavia, and the slaves had rebelled against the VOC in Marunda, North Jakarta.

After the period of slavery ended, the prisoners were employed at the Fish Market. Given, village area near the Port of Sunda Kelapa, which automatically close the Fish Market.

They still inhabit these villages, grow and breed. The area also eventually built the railway, when the Port of Tanjung (new) built.

Railway line linking it to Sunda Kelapa Harbor and Port of Tanjung Priok.

In addition to the station there, in Kampong Bandan also still stands an old mosque known as Kampong Bandan mosque. With the shabby condition, unhealthy, dirty, and messy, this area still deserve to be a tourist destination because of leaving the station and the mosque of the 19th century.

Unit Head Old City, said Chandrian Bandan Village is a cultural conservation area in the map of the city in accordance with the regulations Governor No. 34 of 2006 is the eastern boundary is included in the Old Town revitalization program.

With the shabby conditions at Kampung Bandan seemed to take us back to see slavery and the marginalized in the postmodern era of Batavia. ARP

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