Oey Giok Koen

Oey Giok Koen, Kapitein der Chinezen (died in 1912) was a Chinese-Indonesian public figure, bureaucrat and Landheer, best known for his role as Kapitein der Chinezen of Tangerang and Meester Cornelis, and as one of the richest landowners in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia). As Kapitein, he headed the local Chinese civil administration in Tangerang and Meester Cornelis as part of the Dutch colonial system of 'indirect rule'. In 1893, he bought the particuliere landen or private domains of Tigaraksa and Pondok Kosambi.

Life Born in Batavia into one of the colony's richest families, Oey was the son of Oey Makouw Sia, and was through his father a grandson of Oey Thai Lo, der Chinezen, and a nephew of the murderous playboy Oey Tamba Sia. As a descendant of a Chinese officer, he bore the title ‘Sia’ from birth. In the lead-up to the establishment of the influential Confucian organisation Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan (THHK) in 1900, Kapitein Oey Giok Koen was offered the presidency of the new society by its founders. The Kapitein refused due to his existing responsibilities towards Tjoe Hoe Tee Beng, but accepted a seat on THHK's executive board. Despite coming from a Peranakan lineage of long standing in the Indies, Oey also maintained interests in his ancestral China, where he was appointed in 1908, for instance, as director of the Fukien Railway Company in Amoy, Fujian. He left behind an estate worth 9 million gulden, all of which went to his two minor sons, Oey Kim Tjang Sia and Oey Kim Goan Sia with the exception of a million-gulden bequest for his daughter, Oey Hok Nio.