Kian Gwan

Kian Gwan
Native name
建源
IndustryOpium trading
FounderOei Tjie Sie
FateIndonesian branch Nationalized in 1961
Headquarters
Semarang, Central Java
,
Dutch East Indies

Kian Gwan (Chinese: 建源; pinyin: Jiànyuán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kiàn-goân) was the largest multinational trading company in Southeast Asia in the early decades of the twentieth century, and was founded in 1863 in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).[1] It survives today as a diversified group in Thailand.[2] and in Indonesia, being nationalized in 1961, as PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (Persero).

  1. ^ Rush, James R. (2007). Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910. Singapore: Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9789793780498. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Kian Gwan". Kian Gwan Website. Retrieved 29 September 2017.