THE 1740 RACIAL TRAGEDY AND LOSS OF BATAVIA SUGARCANE INDUSTRIES
ABSTRACT: The racial tragedy
in Batavia in 1740 generally has a great social and
economic impact in Java. Chinese people,
some of whom were the sugar industry owners possessing the links from the raw
materials to finished products were targeted in this terrible situation. They
then ran away from this chaotic condition bringing their sugar industry skills
and this fact led the sugar industries to spread out of Batavia around Java.
Bata-via, which was initially as the
sugar industry basis, therefore, was not
surrounded by cane plantations; meanwhile, these types of plantations were
spreading in the north coastline of Java and some parts of Central Java and
East Java remote areas became sugar industry centers and the people of each
area, therefore, were developing.
Author: Priyanto Wibowo
Journal Code: jpsejarah&umumgg130002
