History of Bandung

History of Bandung

The area now known as the original Bandung is the capital of the Kingdom of Padjadjaran (year 1488). But from ancient archeological discoveries, the city was home to Australopithecus, Java Man. They live on the outskirts of northern Cikapundung Bandung, Bandung and coastal lakes. Images and fragments from the rest of the skull and Flint artifacts can be seen at the Museum of Geology Jl. Diponegoro 57. Bandung.

Dutch Colonial Era

In 1786 began to build roads connecting Jakarta, Bogor, Cianjur and Bandung. Flow of immigrants from Europe increased in 1809 when Louis Napoleon, the ruler of the Netherlands, ordered Governor General HW Daendels, to increase defenses in Java against the British. To send logistics they need roads. Because there are many coastal marshes, eventually they build a road to the south, past the plateau Priangan.

The Groote Postweg (Pos Greatest Line) built 11 miles to the north to the heart of Bandung. As usual with kecekatannya, Daendels ordered that the capital be relocated to the road. Regent Wiranatakusumah II chose a spot in the southern part of the west side of the river Cikapundung, near a pair of sacred wells, wells Bandung, which according to rumors protected by the goddess Nyi Kentring Manik. In this area he built dalemnya (palace) and square (downtown). Following traditional orientations, the Great Mosque in place on the south side, and a traditional market on the east side. His house and verandah (meeting place) located in the southern part of the sacred mountain overlooking Tangkuban Perahu. It was then that Flower City born.

Around the middle of the 19th century, South American Cinchona (quinine), Assam tea, and coffee was introduced to the highlands. At the end of the century Priangan listed as the most profitable agricultural regions as provinces. In 1880 the railway connecting Jakarta and Bandung have been completed, and a promising way for 2 1/2 hours from the hustle of the capital Jakarta to Bandung.

With the changing lifestyle in Bandung, hotels, cafes, shops appear to serve the farmers who either came from the highlands or from the capital to the local cruise in Bandung. Concordia society is formed and the large dance space is a magnet that attracts people to spend a weekend in the city. Preanger Hotel and Savoy Homann were the hotels of choice. Braga along the sidewalks there are exclusive shops of Europe.

With the railroad, light industry developed. Once the raw crops have to be sent directly to Jakarta for shipment by sea to Europe, now primary process can be done efficiently in Bandung. The Chinese who have never lived in Bandung gradually came to help run some of the facilities and machinery and services for new industries. Chinatown emerged in this period.

In the early days of this century, Pax Neerlandica in proclaimed, resulting in a change from military to civilian rule. With this emerging policy of decentralization to lighten the administrative burden of the central government. And that's London to municipalities in 1906.

This shift has had a huge impact on the city. City Hall was built at the north end of Braga to accommodate the new government, separate from the original system. This is then followed by a much larger development at military headquarters moved from Batavia to Bandung around 1920. The place chosen was in the eastern part of City Hall, and in which there are homes for Warlords, offices, barracks and armory.

At the beginning of the 20th century the need to have a professional who has the special ability to drive the establishment of the technical high schools sponsored by the citizens of the city of Bandung. At the same time the plan to move the capital of Dutch East Indies from Batavia to Bandung already mature, the city is extended to the north. District of the capital placed in the northeast, a region that was once the rice fields, and a highway is planned to be made along the 2.5 kilometer facing Tangkuban Boat with Sate Building at the south end, and a colossal monument on the other. On both sides of this magnificent building there will be a settlement offices permerintahan colonial possession.

Along the banks of river landscapes are Cikapundung between Technische Hoogeschool Campus, dorms and the caretaker. The old building and the campus landscape reflects the genius architect Henri Maclain Pont. In the southwestern part reserved for the hospital and the Pasteur Institute, in the old quinine factory. The development is planned with precision ranging from architecture and treatment in detail. The previous year was not long before the outbreak of World War 2 is a golden year for Bandung and Bandung Tempoe remembered as Doeloe.

Milestones-Independence Era

After Indonesia's independence, became the provincial capital of Bandung in West Java. London was the scene of the Bandung conference on 18 April to 24 April 1955 with the aim of promoting economic and cultural cooperation between the countries of Africa and Asia, and to counter the threat of colonialism and neocolonialism by the United States, the Soviet Union or other imperialist countries.