The Deli Bank was the first Chinese bank in Indonesia. It was founded in Medan, Indonesia, in 1907 by the Tjong brothers, Tjong A Fie

Tjong A Fie

Tjong A Fie , or Tjong Yiauw Hian , was a Hakka Chinese businessman, banker and kapitan who built a large plantation business in Sumatra, Indonesia. Tjong A Fie built his business that employed more than 10,000 labor workers...

, (1860-1921) and Tjong Yong Hian (1850-1911), Mandarin capitalists from Mei Hsien, Guangdong, China, who had come over originally to recruit and supply Chinese coolies for plantation workers. Also involved at this time were Cheong Fatt Tze

Cheong Fatt Tze

Cheong Fatt Tze was a Chinese businessman and politician born in 1840 in Dabu, Guangdong Province in South China. He was a powerful Nanyang industrialist and a first-class Mandarin in the Manchu government; he was made Consul-General in Singapore and economic advisor to the Empress Dowager...

 who had entered the region from China, through Indonesia where he built his fortune but who was by that time, Vice-Consul for China, in Penang. Hsieh Yung-kuang was the fourth founding director of the bank.

See also

• A plantation city on the east coast of Sumatra 1870-1942 (Planters, the Sultan, Chinese and the Indian) by Dirk A. Buiskool email: trijaya@attglobal.net; presented at The 1st International Urban Conference, Surabaya, 23rd-25th 2004, Medan
• Kapitalisme, Golongan Menengah dan Negara: Sebuah Catatan Penelitian (1)
• Kapitalisme, Golongan Menengah dan Negara: Sebuah Catatan Penelitian (2)