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Phoa Liong Gie was born on 4 June, 1905 in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies, is a Phoa Liong Gie Sia (. Discover Phoa Liong Gie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?
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Politician, jurist, newspaper owner and editor |
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78 years old |
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Gemini |
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4 June 1905 |
Birthday |
4 June |
Birthplace |
Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies |
Date of death |
1983 |
Died Place |
Switzerland |
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Switzerland
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Phoa Liong Gie Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Phoa Liong Gie's Wife?
His wife is Laura Charlotte Ongkiehong
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Laura Charlotte Ongkiehong |
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Phoa Liong Gie Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Phoa Liong Gie worth at the age of 78 years old? Phoa Liong Gie’s income source is mostly from being a successful Politician. He is from Switzerland. We have estimated Phoa Liong Gie's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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His great-grandfather, Phoa Tjeng Tjoan, served as Kapitein der Chinezen of Buitenzorg (now Bogor) from 1866 until 1878.
This was a post in the colonial civil administration with political and legal jurisdiction over the local Chinese community.
Phoa was styled 'Sia' from birth as the descendant of a Chinese officer.
Phoa was also a great-nephew of the prominent community leader and landlord, Phoa Keng Hek Sia.
The younger Phoa was educated at the Europeesche Lagere School (European lower school) in Garut, and at the Hogere Burgerschool (higher civic school) in Batavia.
Both institutions admitted only the children of elite Europeans and a small number of select non-Europeans.
Phoa subsequently studied at the Rechtshoogeschool (law school) in Batavia before continuing his education at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Phoa Liong Gie Sia (: born in Bandung on June 4, 1905 – died on January 14, 1983, in Switzerland) was an Indonesian-born Swiss jurist, politician and newspaper owner of the late colonial era in the Dutch East Indies.
He was born in 1905 into a prominent family of Peranakan Chinese roots, part of the Cabang Atas or the Chinese gentry of colonial Indonesia.
He graduated as a Meester in de rechten (‘Master of Laws’) in 1925.
Upon returning to Bandung in 1927, Phoa joined the legal practice of the leading Dutch lawyer C. W. Wormser.
A year later in 1928, Phoa moved to Batavia in order to open his own law firm.
Following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather and great-uncle, Phoa also went into politics.
He was a vocal leader of the younger faction of Chung Hwa Hui (CHH), a centre-right political party seen by many as a mouthpiece of the Chinese establishment in colonial Indonesia.
Phoa came into conflict with some of the policies of the older party leadership, represented by the senior parliamentarians H. H. Kan and Loa Sek Hie.
Phoa resented his party leaders’ pro-Dutch sympathies, and advocated Chinese neutrality in the Indonesian struggle for independence.
Phoa even indicated his willingness to support Indonesian nationalism in the right set of circumstances.
Around the time of his move to Batavia in 1928, Phoa also became active in the burgeoning news media and public discourse of colonial Indonesia.
In 1930, he acquired a daily newspaper, Perniagaan, whose name he changed to Siang Po.
This was the beginning of Siang Po Printing Press, which would acquire or create more publications in due course.
A year later, in 1931, Phoa's company bought another daily, Panorama, which had been founded by the writer and journalist Kwee Tek Hoay.
Following an open conflict in 1934 with H. H. Kan, over the latter's supposed dominance over CHH, Phoa resigned his membership of the party.
He maintained, however, his political involvement.
After Phoa resigned from the CHH in 1934, his newspapers assumed an increasingly sympathetic tone towards the Indonesian nationalist movement.
Liem, as well as Saeroen, also contributed to Siang Po.
In mid-1936, Liem, Pane, Sjarifuddin and Yamin founded yet another daily, Kebangoenan, which Siang Po Printing Press likewise printed.
Phoa was also the owner of two further publications, the magazines Si Pao and Kong Hwa Po, the last of which was similarly under Liem's editorial oversight.
Phoa was married Laura Charlotte Ongkiehong, daughter of the Ambon-based newspaper owner and magnate, Ong Kie Hong, and granddaughter of Njio Tek Liem, Luitenant der Chinezen of Ambon ('Lieutenant of the Chinese').
Together with his family, Phoa later moved to Switzerland, where he spent the remainder of his life.
On May 8, 1939, Phoa was appointed by the Dutch authorities to the ‘Volksraad’ (the colonial parliament of Indonesia), and took his seat as an independent member.
After the Second World War, between 1946 and 1948, Phoa acted as a legal advisor and delegate of the Netherlands at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in New York and Geneva.