A Chinese consulate general was already present in Jakarta (at that time Batavia) prior to Indonesian independence.

By November 1909, negotiations between China and the Netherlands on consular rights were ongoing, and a letter from Chinese legate in The Hague, Lu Zhengxiang, indicated that the Dutch agreed to the opening of a Chinese consulate in the Dutch East Indies.

[1] At the outbreak of the Second World War, the consulate was located near Kali Besar, and was headed by a consul-general.

In 1951, a diplomatic spate occurred when the Indonesian authorities refused entry of Chinese embassy staff.

[4][5] In the aftermath of the 30 September coup of 1965, China sheltered leading Indonesian Communist Party exiles, resulting in mob attacks against the embassy, and formal relations were suspended in October 1967.