[1][2] In the former capacity, he acted as the head of the Chinese civil administration in Tangerang as part of the Dutch colonial system of ‘indirect rule’.
[2] On March 31, 1878, together with the rest of the Chinese officer corps of Tangerang under Kapitein Lim Tjong Hien, Oey acquired a new plot of land for use as new public burial grounds for the local Chinese community.
[4] The new burial grounds were to be managed under the auspices of Tangerang's oldest Chinese temple, Boen Tek Bio.
[1] In a modernising move, ownership of the family's historic landholdings were transferred to the new company under the directorship of Oey's son and heir.
[6][7] In 1899, following a two-year hiatus after his death in 1897, Oey was succeeded as Kapitein der Chinezen of Tangerang by Kapitein Oey Giok Koen, who was married to his wife's niece, Ong Dortjie Nio.