Wonopringgo is a village and subdistrict in Pekalongan Regency in Central Java, Indonesia. It is located south of Pekalongan. The village was an important centre of sugar production with the Karang Anjer Factory in the area during the Dutch East Indies from at least the 1830s when the first Chinese person ran the factory in Wonopringgo.[1][2][3] The Amsterdam based Netherlands Trading Company (Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappij or NHM) operated in the village.
Wonopringgo | |
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Village and subdistrict | |
  Wonopringgo Location in Java | |
| Coordinates: 6°59′28″S 109°38′24″E / 6.99111°S 109.64000°E | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Province | Central Java |
| Regency | Pekalongan Regency |
Administrative divisions
editThe subdistrict contains the following villages (desa/kelurahan) aside from Wonopringgo:
References
edit- ^ Cambridge University Press. Online Journals (2006). Journal of Southeast Asian studies. McGraw-Hill Far Eastern Publishers. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ International sugar journal. International Sugar Journal. 1921. pp. 397–8. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ Bosma, Ulbe; Giusti-Cordero, Juan A.; Knight, G. R. (2007). Sugarlandia revisited: sugar and colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940. Berghahn Books. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-84545-316-9. Retrieved 30 December 2010.