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Teguh Hindarto at 05.32
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

'The existence of Chinese in Kebumen: Tracking the footsteps of Tan Peng Nio'

The existence of ethnic Chinese has long entered the archipelago around the 4th century MS. This can be tracked from a number of historic records written by Chinese clerics who visit Java and Sriwijaya. Prof. Slamet Mulyana wrote historical facts by mentioning several names such as Fa Hien who wrote his pilgrimage journey between 399 to 414 with the title Fahueki. Then Rohaniawan I Tsing who visited Sriwijaya in 671 and wrote his history book with the title Nan-Hai-Chi-Kuei-Naifa-Chuan and Ta-ta-t'ang-si-mouth-mouth-fap-na-kao-seng-chuan. Then in the first expedition Admiral Ceng Ho in 1405 stopped at Bandar Samudra Pasai to cause good relations between China and Pasai Samudra and withdraw the Chinese merchants to come to Pasai.The collapse of the Javanese Hindu Kingdom and the emergence of Islamic countries in the Archipelago, 2013: 1-99).
When is the Kebumen community, especially the Panjer Duchy Government as a region of Mataram, interacting with ethnic Chinese/Chinese? We do not get clear information about the initial encounter, but by tracking the existence of a tomb in the Kalijirek region associated with a name, Tan Peng Nio, then we can track at least the year of Ethnic Chinese/Chinese estimates begins to be in the Panjer or Kebumen region.

The tomb of Tan Peng Nio is located in the middle of rice fields in Jatimulyo Village

According to records written by R. Tirto Wenang Kolopaking, Tan Peng Nio is the second wife of the Kolopaking III Crait (Sulaiman Kertowongso). The four wife of Kolopaking III are: Raden Ayu Sekar Mayang Sari (Putri Kyai R. Ngabei Reksoprojo II), Raden Ayu Tan Peeng Nio (daughter of Champa son of General Tan Wan Swee), Raden Ayu Ambini (daughter of KRT Arung Binan II), Raden Ajeng Sekar Lasih (daughter of Kra Aryo Danurejo II) - History of Banyumas Wiraseba, Kiai Geng Mangir - Kolopaking - Arung Binang, Kolopaking Trah , 2005: 256).

In his book, R. Tirto Wenang Kolopaking explained about who the Tan Peng Nio briefly. According to him, Tan Peng Nio was the son of General Tan Wan Swee who disagreed and made a failure that failed against Emperor Kien Long from the Qing Dynasty, Mancuria (Ibid., P. 358). General Tan Wan Swee had previously left his daughter named Tan Peng Nio to his best friend Lia Beeng Goe, a coffin making expert and martial expert. When the coup failed Tan Peng Nio underwent a escape with Lia Beeng Goe to Singgapura then to Sunda Kelapa (Jakarta).

During a riot that was famous for the commotion of Chinatown (1740) where there was an ethnic Chinese massacre by the power of the VOC, it was told that Lia Beeng Goe and Tang Peng Nio fled eastward until he arrived in Kutowinangun and met with Kiai Honggoyudho who was proficient in making weapons. When there was a war and invasion for 16 years by Prince Garendi, from 1741-1757, Tan Peng Nio was reportedly joining 200 Kolopaking II Krat Forces who were sent to help Prince Garendi's troops. Tan Peng Nio reportedly disguised as a male soldier. After the war ended at the Giyanti negotiating table (February 13, 1755), the son of the Kolopaking II Krat, Raden Sulaiman Kertowongso who had joined 200 Panjer Rooma forces sent and joined Prince Garendi,

Strangely, when I tried to explore the Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) and trace it through the online site, there was never a note about the coup conducted by a person named General Tan Wan Swee ( Qianlong Emperor - https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/qianlong_emperor). Interestingly, in the book Sartono Kartodirjo, there is a name of the leader leader who helped Prince Garendi by the name "Tai Wan Sai" and there was no information other than the sentence, "Meanwhile, because it has lost many followers, Mas Garendi surrendered in Surabaya on 3 on 3 October, he was finally exiled to Sailan. A group of China under Tai Wan Sai fled to Bali "( Introduction to the History of the New Indonesian: 1500-1900 from Emporium to the Empire, 2014: 265). Is "Tan Wan Swee" is "Tan Wan Sai?" Who knows. But in a site that discusses Chinese history in Indonesia, the author denies the coup event or that connects the name of Tan Wan Swee with Emperor Qinliong ( Batavia massacre 1740 - http://web.budaya-inghoa.net/index.php/item/1890 -QA-Fembant-Batavia-1740).

From the brief study above we find that ethnic Chinese interactions through the presence of Lia Beeng Goe and Tan Peng Nio ranged from the 1740s after the "Geger Pacinan" in Batavia where the two Chinese ethnic people were settled in Kutowinangun and struggled in Prince Garendi troops and ended with the second wife of the Kolopaking III Krat III.
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