Sim Keng Koen, Kapitein-titulair der Chinezen | |
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Luitenant der Chinezen in Batavia | |
In office 1880–1887 | |
Constituency | Batavia |
Kapitein der Chinezen in Batavia | |
In office 1887–1889 | |
Constituency | Batavia |
Kapitein der Chinezen of Sukabumi | |
In office 1892–1899 | |
Preceded by | New creation |
Succeeded by | Lauw Tjeng Kie,Luitenant der Chinezen |
Constituency | Sukabumi |
Personal details | |
Born | Batavia,Dutch East Indies |
Died | Sukabumi,Dutch East Indies |
Nationality | Indonesian |
Spouse | Louisa Zecha |
Relations | Che Engku Chesterina (granddaughter) Adrian Lauw Zecha (step-great-grandson) |
Children | Sim Tjeng Bouw Betsy Lembor Nio Sim-Zecha Piet Tjeng Ho Sim-Zecha Chester Tjeng Soan Lauw-Sim-Zecha |
Occupation | Mandarin |
Known for | Role as the first Kapitein der Chinezen of Sukabumi |
Sim Keng Koen,Kapitein der Chinezen (died in 1906) was a Chinese-Indonesian bureaucrat and the patriarch of the influential Lauw-Sim-Zecha family,part of the 'Cabang Atas' gentry of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). [1] [2] [3] [4] He was married to Louisa Zecha,the Indo-Bohemian widow of Sim's former employer,Lauw Tek Lok,Luitenant der Chinezen of Bekasi. [1] [2]
Sim began his career as the private secretary of Luitenant Lauw Tek Lok,one of the preeminent Chinese-Indonesian magnates of the second half of the nineteenth century. [2] After leaving Lauw's employ,Sim was appointed Luitenant der Chinezen of the Kong Koan (Chinese Council) of Batavia in 1880. [5] This was a senior civil government post in the Dutch colonial bureaucracy. [2] He was further elevated to the rank of Kapitein in 1887,and was discharged with honour in 1889. [6] [7]
Together with his wife,Louisa Zecha,Sim settled down in Sukabumi,a hill station in the Preanger highlands of West Java. [2] In 1892,he was appointed as the first Hoofd der Chinezen of Sukabumi with the rank of Kapitein-titulair der Chinezen. [8] The sociologist Mely G. Tan calls Sim the most prominent of all of Sukabumi's Chinese headmen,in large part thanks to the high profile of his Eurasian wife. [2] In the course of a violent uprising in Tamboen in the late nineteenth century,and in the absence of any Dutch military response,Sim accompanied Zecha to meet with the insurgents in order to negotiate a surrender. [1] They succeeded in this aim without military intervention. [1] The Kapitein's influence in Sukabumi was such that the local Chinese community celebrated Cap Go Meh a few days later so as to coincide with Sim's birthday festivities. [2]
He requested an honourable discharge from the colonial authorities due to old age,which was granted,in 1899. [9] He died in 1906. [3] [4] That same year,he was succeeded as Hoofd der Chinezen of Sukabumi by his step-nephew,Lauw Tjeng Kie,in which capacity,however,he bore the lower title of Luitenant der Chinezen of Sukabumi (the office having been downgraded in rank from captaincy to a lieutenantcy upon Sim's retirement). [10]
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