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The article traces nineteenth-century expansion linked to transport developments and plantation exports, and explains Semarang’s evolving municipal status, governance, and population growth. It then examines conflicts between colonial authorities, city council members, and non-European residents that emerged around efforts to improve kampungs, remaining unresolved at the end of the colonial period.","Department of History,National University of Singapore  \n# Kampungs and Conflict in Colonial Semarang\n\nAuthor(s):James L.Cobban  \nSource:Journal of Southeast Asian Studies,Vol.19,No.2(Sep.,1988),pp.266-291  \nPublished by:Cambridge University Press on behalf of Department of History,NationalUniversity of Singapore  \nStable URL:https://www.jstor.org/stable/20071015  \nAccessed:24-10-201907:17 UTC  \nJSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars,researchers,and students discover,use,and build upon a widerange of content in a trusted digital archive.We use information technology and tools to increase productivity andfacilitate new forms of scholarship.For more information about JSTOR,please contact support@jstor.org.  \nYour use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms &Conditions of Use,available athttps://about.jstor.org/terms  \nDepartment of History,National University of Singapore,Cambridge University Pressare collaborating with JSTOR to digitize,preserve and extend access to Journal of SoutheastAsian Studies  \nVol.XIX,No.2  \n# Kampungs and Conflict in Colonial Semarang*\n\nJAMES L.COBBAN  \nBy the beginning of the twentieth century,Semarang was a major port city andadministrative centre on Java.Attainment of this position was due partly to theexpansion of its hinterland during the nineteenth century.This expansion was closelyrelated to developments in the means of transportation and the consequent ability ofplantation owners to bring the products of their plantations to the port for shipment toforeign markets.By the end of the century virtually the whole economic life of centralJava focused upon Semarang.The city also exercised administrative functions in theDutch colonial administration and generally had been responsible for Dutch interestsin the middle and eastern parts of the island.The importance of Semarang as anadministrative centre increased after 1906.In that year the government incorporatedthe city as an urban municipality(stadsgemeente).In 1914 it had consular representationfrom the United States,Belgium,Denmark,France,Great Britain,Italy,Norway,Germany,and Thailand.1 Subsequently,in 1926 it became the capital of the Province ofCentral Java under the terms of an administrative reform fostered by the colonialgovernment at Batavia.2 Status as an urban municipality meant that local officials sittingon a city council would govern the domestic affairs of the city.The members of the citycouncil at first were appointed from Batavia,subsequently some of them were electedby residents of the city.By the beginning of the twentieth century Semarang hadenhanced its position as a major port on the north coast of the island of Java.It was oneof the foremost cities of the Dutch East Indies,along with Batavia and Surabaya,aleading port and a centre of administration and trade.This article outlines the growthof the port of Semarang during the nineteenth century and discusses some of the conflictrelated to this growth over living conditions in parts of the city during the twentiethcentury,a conflict which smouldered for several decades among the government,members of the city council,and the non-European residents of the city,one whichremained unresolved at the end of the colonial era.  \n*Semarang grew rapidly during the nineteenth century and became an incorporated municipality in thetwentieth.Its city council brought Western standards to much of the city but its efforts to improve thekampungs met with little success.Kampung improvement remained a local issue removed from nationalpolitical and social movements.  \n'De Vogel,Memorie van overgave van de Residentie Semarang,dated 3 Maart 1914.Contained inMailrapport 1133/14,Department van Binnenlandse Zaken,The Hague.  \n2J.J.Schrieke,Inleiding in het Staatsrecht van Nederlands-Indie(Haarlem:Tjeenk Willink &Zoon,1940),p.70.  \nKampungs and Conflict in Colonial Semarang  \nAlthough Dutch literature referred to Semarang as a large city(groote hoofdplaats),the term was rel","cbCaioVTqeID4MLQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioVTqeID4MLQ","pdf",4211904,4,1,27,"English","en",105,"# Kampungs and Conflict in Colonial Semarang\n## Urban and administrative growth of Semarang\n## Port development and economic expansion\n## Population growth and city area expansion\n## Municipal governance and ongoing conflicts","[{\"question\":\"What conflict does the article address, and who were the main parties involved?\",\"answer\":\"The article discusses conflicts linked to the port and urban growth that affected living conditions in parts of the city during the twentieth century. 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