Khouw family of Tamboen

The Khouw family of Tamboen was an aristocratic landowning dynasty of bureaucrats and community leaders, part of the Cabang Atas or the Peranakan Chinese gentry of colonial Indonesia.

[2][4][5] As among the colony's largest landlords, the family also played an important role in the urban, agricultural and economic development of the greater Jakarta area.

[2][7] The oldest, Khouw Tjoen, subsequently established himself in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, and accumulated land in the city and the surrounding countryside.

[1] The family owned three extravagant Chinese compounds in Molenvliet, of which the only surviving one, Candra Naya, is now a major historic landmark in Jakarta.

[9] The family is also remembered today for their Art Deco country house, Landhuis Tamboen (now Gedung Juang Tambun [id]).