Han Tiauw Tjong

Han Tiauw Tjong Sia (1894–1940), known as Dr. Ir. Han Tiauw Tjong, was a prominent colonial Indonesian politician, engineer, community leader and a member of the influential Han family of Lasem.[1][2][3] He sat in the Volksraad (the colonial legislature) of the Dutch East Indies for two terms (1924 – 1929, 1938 – 1939), and was a founding member of the centre-right political party Chung Hwa Hui.[4][2][3] Han also served as a Trustee of the Technische Hoogeschool te Bandoeng (now an Indonesian national research university, ITB: the Institut Teknologi Bandung) from 1924 until 1940.[4]

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