Preanger Regencies Residency

Last updated June 15, 2023

Preanger Regencies Residency (Dutch : Residentie Preanger-Regentschappen), sometimes referred to as Preanger Residency and renamed Priangan Residency after 1931, was an administrative division (residency) of the Dutch East Indies located in Parahyangan, West Java which existed from 1817 to 1925.^[1] Its capital was in Cianjur until 1856 and thereafter in Bandung. The residency contained the municipality of Bandung and the regencies (regentschap) of Bandoeng, Soemedang, Tasikmalaja, Tjiamis and Garoet.

History

Prehistory

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the area of Preanger (Parahyangan) had belonged to the Mataram Sultanate.^[2] In the late seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company allied itself with Mataram, but demanded territorial and trade concessions.^[2] During this time, the Dutch started to exert more and more influence in the Western part of Java.^[2] Mataram finally ceded all control of Cheribon and regions to the south, including the Preanger region, in 1705.^[1]^[2] The eastern part of what would become this residency was at first ruled from Cirebon in a residency called the Cheribonsche Preanger Regentschappen, while the western parts were allowed to remain under the control of local princes.^[1] That situation remained until 1808, when Napoleonic governor Herman Willem Daendels reorganized the territory in a prefecture (the Batavian and Priangan Regencies) and connected it to Batavia via the Great Post Road.^[3]

Residency

In 1818, after the short French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies, the territory was reestablished by the Dutch as the Preanger Regencies Residency.^[1]^[3]

The residency as established in 1818 consisted of three major divisions:

Cianjur and Sukabumi, ruled directly by the resident whose seat was at Cianjur;
Bandung;
Sumedang, Sukapura and Limbangan.

The capital of the residency was transferred from Cianjur to Bandung in 1856, but the seat of the resident himself was not moved there until 1864.^[1] In 1866, Limbangan was also separated to be its own division with an Assistant Resident.^[1]

During the early twentieth century, the residency had a number of Tea estates in its mountainous areas, as well as being a center of Tapioca flour production in the Indies.^[4] It was also one of the earliest areas in the Indies to industrialize significantly.^[5] During this time, Bandung was also the location of the first university in the Indies and the place where a number of important printing presses were located, including the popular newspaper De Preangerbode.^[6]

In 1915, Garut Regency was transferred from the Cheribon Residency to Preanger.^[1] In 1925, the four residencies of western Java were subdivided into nine new residencies.^[3] The former Preanger Regencies Residency was broken up into three smaller residencies: West-Priangan, Midden-Priangan en Oost-Priangan.^[3] However, in 1931 they were reorganized once again, with parts of the former residency now being divided between Buitzenzorg Residency and the renamed Priangan Residency.^[3] Those borders were kept by the Japanese during their occupation of Java during World War II, and for a short time by the Republic of Indonesia after 1945.^[3]

List of residents

Gerrit Willem Casimir van Motman: 1817–1819
Robert Lieve Jasper van der Capellen: 1819–1825
Pieter le Clereq: 1825–1827
Willem Nicolaas Servatius: 1827–1828
Otto Carel Holmberg de Beckfelt: 1828–1837
Pieter le Clereq: 1837–1839
Johan Frans Hora Siccama: 1839–1841
Jean Baptiste Cleerens: 1841–1846
Pieter Johannes Overhand: 1846–1850
Carl Philip Conrad Steinmetz: 1851–1855
Herman Constantijn van der Wijck: 1855–1858
Christiaan van der Moore: 1858–1874
Ferdinand Theodoor Pahud de Mortanges: 1874–1879
Jan Marinus van Vleuten: 1879–1884
Albert Gustaaf George Peltzer–1884–1887
Johannes Heijting: 1887–1891
Johannes Diederik Harders: 1891–1894
Christiaan Willem Kist: 1894–1900
Eduard Thomas Theodorus Henricus van Benthem van den Bergh: 1900–1903
Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Jan Oosthout: 1903–1907
Willem Frederik Lamoraal Boissevain: 1907–1911
Gideon Jan Oudemans: 1911–1913
Tielus Jan Janssen: 1913–1917
Louis de Stuers: 1917–1920
Willem Pieter Hillen: 1920–1921
August Johan Herman Eijken: 1921–1925

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Stibbe, D. G., ed. (1919). Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië . Derde Deel N-Soema (in Dutch) (2 ed.). s'Gravenhage: Nijhoff. pp. 503–6.
1 2 3 4 Cribb, R. B. (2000). Historical atlas of Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 88–95. ISBN 0-8248-2111-4.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Cribb, R. B. (2000). Historical atlas of Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 123–6. ISBN 0-8248-2111-4.
↑ Commerce, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic; Fowler, John A. (1923). Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: A Commercial and Industrial Handbook. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 131–41.
↑ Commerce, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic; Fowler, John A. (1923). Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: A Commercial and Industrial Handbook. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 213.
↑ Commerce, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic (1932). Commercial Travelers' Guide to the Far East. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 273–4.

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[EVNI_3_503-6-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Stibbe, D. G., ed. (1919). Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië . Derde Deel N-Soema (in Dutch) (2 ed.). s'Gravenhage: Nijhoff. pp. 503–6.

[Cribb_2000_88-95-2] 1 2 3 4 Cribb, R. B. (2000). Historical atlas of Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 88–95. ISBN 0-8248-2111-4.

[Cribb_2000_123-6-3] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cribb, R. B. (2000). Historical atlas of Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 123–6. ISBN 0-8248-2111-4.

[4] Commerce, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic; Fowler, John A. (1923). Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: A Commercial and Industrial Handbook. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 131–41.

[5] Commerce, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic; Fowler, John A. (1923). Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: A Commercial and Industrial Handbook. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 213.

[6] Commerce, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic (1932). Commercial Travelers' Guide to the Far East. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 273–4.

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