Glimpse of the history of post Daendels highway

January 5, 1808. Maarschalk Herman Willem Daendels set foot in Anyer, Banten. This is his first day on the island of Java after a long journey across the ocean from the Netherlands. Not light his mission in this colony. Dutch King Louis (Lodewijk) Napoleon, brother of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, appointed Governor-General at Albertus Wiese replace Java. The main task is to save the Governor-General Daendels Java Island from British attack.
Java is the only Dutch-French colonies that have not fallen into the hands of England after the Isle de France and Mauritius fall in 1807. Several times the British fleet seen in the waters north of the Sea of ​​Java, near Batavia. Eight years ago, precisely in 1800, successfully blockaded the British fleet destroyed the Batavia and the Dutch shipyard on the island of Onrust. Not long ago, two years ago, in 1806, the British fleet appeared in Gresik.Political coloring Daendels crunch coming that day.
The new Governor-General is moving fast. He was well aware, the French-Dutch forces on Java will not be able to face the British fleet. He also restructured its military strength. Native people recruited into the army. He built hospitals and the new military barracks. In Surabaya Lodewijk he founded Citadel and build a weapons factory. In Semarang, he built a cannon factory.Meanwhile, the military school he founded in Batavia.
However, more than all that, 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 landline mobilization of troops to defend Java will be more easily implemented. This is the Post Road (Groote Postweg, The Great Post Road).
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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. History, whatever gloomy, always save a valuable lesson. On this page you can follow the journey of the expedition.

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