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12-518: After the opening of the Great Post Road in 1810, many colonial cash-crop plantations were established in the Preanger area. During the 19th to early 20th century, Bandung has become a popular business, shopping and leisure destination for wealthy plantation owners, in particular in the weekends. As a result, the hotel business was blooming in the city. The predecessor of the present hotel,

24-476: Is the name for the historical road that runs across Java and connects Anyer with Panarukan . It was built during the administration of Herman Willem Daendels (1808–1811), governor-general of the Dutch East Indies , using unpaid forced labour that cost thousands of lives. La Grande Route , as Daendels called it, was a military road built by the order of King Louis Bonaparte , who ruled

36-661: The Kingdom of Holland during the Napoleonic Wars . France was at war with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , and the road was intended to support the defence of Java by, e.g. making it easier to transfer soldiers and supplies. In 1750, before the road was constructed, connections existed between Batavia (present-day Jakarta ) and Semarang and onwards to Surabaya . A north-south connection between Semarang, Surakarta and onwards to Yogyakarta

48-660: The 1980s. Some of its celebrity guests during the Dutch East Indies era were Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford . During the World War II Japanese occupation (1942–45), the hotel functioned as luxurious barracks for Japanese soldiers. In 1955, when the first Asian–African Conference was held in Bandung, Savoy Homann hosted VVIP guests and became a part of the Historical Walk. Some of

60-610: The Homann Hotel was built in 1871–72, owned and managed by the Homann family. It was famous for its delicious Mrs. Homann's Rijsttafel . This first small building was designed in Gothic-Romantic style. In 1939, the hotel was rebuilt in a curved streamlined art deco style, designed by the architect Albert Aalbers . To emphasize its grandeur and luxury the name "Savoy" was added in the 1940s, which remained unchanged until

72-681: The Java Great Post Road. However, the original post road runs through the Preanger (Priangan, West Java ) highlands, from Meester Cornelis (Jatinegara) south to Buitenzorg ( Bogor ), and east to Cianjur , Bandung , Sumedang , and Cirebon . The current north coast road, however, runs through coastal northern West Java and was built after the construction of Daendels' post road. It connects Bekasi , Karawang , and Cirebon. The road originally ran from Anyer , present-day Banten , but formerly West Java, to Panarukan, East Java, but later

84-540: The Megamendung area near Buitenzorg (the present-day Bogor ), excluding the number of people who died as the result of illness. Furthermore, Engelhard criticized Daendels for the thousand casualties resulting from the road construction in the woods of Weleri in the Pekalongan region. Today, the present Javanese North Coast Road ( Indonesian : Jalan Pantura, abbreviation from "Pantai Utara" ) mostly follows

96-480: The film De Groote Postweg ("The Great Post Road"). A central character in the movie is the Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer , who narrates it. The film has aspects of a road movie, interspersed with shots at Toer's house. It discusses the sacrifices made by the native population during the road's construction and exposes the lack of freedom and the rampant corruption of modern-day Indonesia. A censor from

108-835: The guests were Sukarno , Ho Chi Minh , Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru , U Nu , Zhou Enlai , Gamal Abdul Nasser , and Tito . In the 1990s the hotel was renovated and a new wing was added. It was managed for a number of years by the Bidakara Group as the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel. The hotel has three wings: the Tower Wing, Garden Wing and Millennium Wing. It has a total of 185 guest rooms. 6°55′20″S 107°36′37″E  /  6.92211°S 107.61036°E  / -6.92211; 107.61036 Great Post Road The Great Post Road ( Indonesian : Jalan Raya Pos , Dutch : De Grote Postweg )

120-507: The heavy work, which resulted in thousands of deaths due to the difficult health challenges of the forests and marshes as well as the labour conditions. Many of Daendels' opponents became historical sources of the harsh conditions during the road construction. Major William Thorn wrote that about 12,000 natives are said to have perished during the construction. Nicolaus Engelhard, who was a governor over most of Java and who had to give up his position to Daendels, stated that 500 workers had died in

132-707: Was also available then. However, heavy tropical rainfall frequently destroyed them. When he started road construction in the Dutch East Indies , Daendels faced difficult conditions. The colony's financial situation was so tight that the minister of colonial affairs in The Hague sent him a letter emphasizing the need to reduce expenditures. The British posed a major threat. Furthermore, there were uprisings in Bantam and Cirebon , and some of Daendels' opponents actively frustrated his endeavours. Daendels then decided to use Javanese unpaid forced labourers to perform most of

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144-783: Was extended to Banyuwangi . Currently, the Java main road extends through five provinces : Banten , DKI Jakarta , West Java , Central Java , and East Java . The road initially served as the backbone of Java's transportation and logistics. It connects some of the largest cities in Java, including Anyer, Cilegon , Serang , Tangerang , Batavia , Meester Cornelis (today absorbed into Jakarta), Buitenzorg (now Bogor ), Cianjur , Bandung , Sumedang , Cirebon , Brebes , Tegal , Pemalang , Pekalongan , Batang , Semarang , Demak , Kudus , Pati , Rembang , Tuban , Lamongan , Surabaya , Sidoarjo , Pasuruan , Probolinggo , Bondowoso , and Panarukan . In 1996, Dutch director Bernie IJdis made

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