NAME: ANNISA DWIUTAMI
NPM : 20210910
CLASS: 3EB17
Assignment
of Business English 3_Part 2
History
of Daendels Roads
May
7th , 2013
Indonesia
has a fascinating history. As Indonesian people who study history, we should
know about one of Indonesia’s history (The Colonial History) is Daendel’s Road.
Daendels Road was built by Governor General Herman Willem Daendels. Herman Willem
Daendels was born in Hattem, Netherlands on October 21, 1762.
Herman
Willem Daendels came to Indonesia when 1806 – 1807, the defence of the
Netherland colony territory became difficult. This caused by the attack of
British combat fleet on several lacces, such as : Cape of Good Hope (the beginning
of 1806); Batavia and Surabaya (the end of 1807). After receiving a report
about the fall of Cape of Good Hope, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as King of the
Netherlands summoned Daendels and gave appointed him Governor General of Java. This
appointment was based on the policy that Java was a very strategic island, not
only economically but also politically. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as King of the
Netherlands appointed Daendels as
Governor General in Java in his letter dated January 27, 1807. Daendels received
two important tasks : to defend Java from the attack of British combat fleet
and to make a clean goverment in the East India Colony. That two tasks of
Daendels in 3 set of instructions, as follow : one set of instructions for the
Governor General (37 articles), one set for the position of Governor General
and The India Council (25 articles), and a third set of of instructions for the
dissolution and the foration of the India Council (6 articles).
After
10 monnth of maritim travel, Daendels
arrived at Anyer on January 1, 1808. He went directly to Batavia to meet the Governor
General Albertus Henricus Wiese. He needed 4 days to reach Batavia. In January
14, 1808 Daendels became Governor General of Java. As a new governor, he had 2
urgent tasks. He reorganized by receiving European soldiers, adding indigenous
soldiers, and omitting any military hierarchy as had been done by the
Napoleonic army. He also connected all villages by bulding the “post road”.
The
“post roads” mainly for the sake
of maintaining Java project is to build a highway along approximately 1,000 km
that connects the western end and the eastern tip of Java island, linking Anyer
to Panarukan.The aim of the war mobilization that can run fast. Only
with a good land line mobilization of troops to defend Java will be more easily
implemented. This is La
Grande Route, as Daendels called it and we can say the Post Road (De Grote Postweg, The Great Post Road).
Daendels
power era on the island of Java which is only three years (1808-1811) was
one dark spot of this nation's history. Pramoedya Ananta Tur, in his novel Jalan Raya Pos, Jalan Daendels,
perpetuating the bitter times. With bitterness he wrote, "Indonesia
is a land of slaves. Among slaves and slave nation for other nations
". History records, more than 12,000 people died from forced labor to
build this road.But who would presume, behind her dark past history, Daendels
actually laid the foundation for the development of urban and spatial
relationships between cities in Java since the early nineteenth century until
now.
The highway is now a transportation artery in Java. Development of
Post Road also has changed the face of urban areas in Java. Economic life
in cities through which the line of Post Road is growing rapidly. A ghost
town, another town grow. So it went all the time. Over the past 200
years (1808-2008) highway that is a silent witness of life and death of the
cities in Java.
Commemorating 200 years of Post Road, we will conduct the expedition, along
the back road from Anyer to Panarukan.The trip will take place from May 16 to 25
August. Routes to be taken is Flashback that takes the theme "200 Years Anjer-Panaroekan: Road (to)
change" is like shooting the developments taking place along Jalan Raya
Pos. Compass also want to explore what lessons can be learned from the
Governor-General of the Netherlands with this highway project.
