The Hotel Savoy Homann is a historic four stars hotel located on Asia Afrika Street, Bandung , Indonesia . It was built in 1939, replacing the 19th century Homann Hotel . Designed by the Dutch architect Albert Aalbers , the hotel features art deco exterior and interior, and historic furniture. It is an architectural heritage and a fine example of art deco colonial architecture of the East Indies .
21-518: 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,
42-556: A navigable passage for light craft into the island's interior. The town is close to the Sunda Strait through which important ocean-going traffic passes between Java and Sumatra . Formerly Old Banten was the capital of a sultanate in the area, was strategically important and a major centre for trade. In the 5th century Banten was part of the Tarumanagara kingdom. The Lebak relic inscription , found in lowland villages on
63-476: 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
84-661: 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
105-520: The 16th century, Bantam became the seat of the powerful Banten Sultanate . The English East India Company began to send ships to the East Indies around 1600 and established a permanent trading post at Bantam in 1603, as did the Dutch also. In 1613, John Jourdain was appointed as Chief Factor there, holding the administrative post until 1616, apart from a few months of 1615, when Thomas Elkington
126-660: 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
147-610: 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
168-482: The Indonesian government accompanied the crew, and IJdis said afterwards he never expected to be let into Indonesia again. Bantam (city) 6°02′33″S 106°09′39″E / 6.0424495°S 106.1609316°E / -6.0424495; 106.1609316 Banten , also written as Bantam , is a port town near the western end of Java , Indonesia . It has a secure harbour at the mouth of Banten River ,
189-681: 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
210-540: 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
231-524: The decline of the English trading post. Today, Banten is a small local seaport, part of modern Serang Regency . It is in the economic shadow of the neighbouring port of Merak to the west and Jakarta to the east. There is a significant Chinese presence in the community. South-Bantam or Bantan-Kidoel or Lebak was the place where the eponymous character in Multatuli's novel Max Havelaar acted as
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#1732776110931252-505: The early 13th century, Srivijaya still ruled Sumatra, the Malay peninsula, and western Java ( Sunda ). The source identifies the port of Sunda as strategic and thriving, pepper from Sunda being among the best in quality. The people worked in agriculture and their houses were built on wooden poles ( rumah panggung ). However, robbers and thieves plagued the country. It is highly possible that the port of Sunda mentioned by Chou Ju-kua referred to
273-550: The edge of Ci Danghiyang, Munjul, Pandeglang, Banten, wad discovered in 1947 and contains two lines of poetry in Pallawa script and Sanskrit . The inscription mention the courage of king Purnawarman. After the collapse of the kingdom Tarumanagara following an attack by the Srivijaya empire, power in western Java fell to the Kingdom of Sunda . The Chinese source, Chu-fan-chi , written c. 1200 by Chou Ju-kua , mentioned that in
294-421: 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
315-835: 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 )
336-507: 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
357-482: The port of Banten. According to Portuguese explorer Tomé Pires , in the early 16th century the port of Bantam (Banten) was one of the important ports of the Kingdom of Sunda along with the ports of Pontang, Cheguide (Cigede), Tangaram ( Tangerang ), Calapa ( Sunda Kelapa ), and Chimanuk (estuarine of Cimanuk river). As a trading city Bantam received an influx of Islamic influence in the early 16th century. Later in
378-599: The thirty years following 1603, the trading factories established by the English on the Coromandel Coast of India, such as those at Machilipatnam (estd. 1611) and Fort St. George (estd. 1639), reported to Bantam. During the 17th century, the Portuguese and the Dutch fought for control of Bantam. Eventually, the fact that the Dutch found they could control their Batavia trading factory, established in 1611, more thoroughly than Bantam may have contributed to
399-468: Was Chief Factor; he was succeeded in 1616 by George Berkley, but from 1617 until 1630 the factory was under a chosen President. From 1630 until 1634 a succession of Agents were appointed annually, but from 1634 the series of Presidents resumed until 1652. Aaron Baker (1610-1683) served for twenty years as President of Bantam, as is recorded on his mural monument in Dunchideock parish church, Devon. In
420-707: 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
441-783: 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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