Mona Lohanda (4 November 1947 – 16 January 2021) was an Indonesian historian, archivist and academic, as well as a curator of the

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. She was a leading authority on the history of

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, as well as its Chinese-Indonesian community.

Early life

On 4 November 1947, Lohanda was born in

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, Indonesia. Lohanda comes from a

Benteng Chinese Benteng people (Indonesian: Orang Cina Benteng or Orang Tionghoa Benteng) are a Chinese Indonesian community of ' Peranakan' or mixed descent, native to the historic Tangerang area in the modern-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and ...

family. Lohanda grew up in

, Indonesia.

Education

In 1975, Lohanda graduated with a B.A. degree from the Faculty of Literature,

University of Indonesia The University of Indonesia ( id, Universitas Indonesia, abbreviated as UI) is a public university in Depok, West Java and Salemba, Jakarta, Indonesia. It is one of the oldest tertiary-level educational institutions in Indonesia (known as the D ...

. Lohanda was encouraged by the Indonesian historian Harsja Bachtiar to focus on Chinese-Indonesian history. In 1994, Lohanda earned a M.A. from the

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Career

In 1972, Lohanda commenced work at the

, where she later specialized on the

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(VOC) period of colonial Indonesia, especially the period between 1683 and 1806. She compiled an index of VOC documents to facilitate the work of researchers and other academics. She retired from the Indonesian National Archives in 2012. She was also a lecturer at her alma mater, the University of Indonesia. For her contribution to Indonesian historiography, Lohanda received the Nabil Award in 2010, the Kompas Cedekiawan Berdedikasi Award in 2012, and the Bakrie Award in 2016.

Death

On January 16, 2021, Lohanda died at Sari Asih Karawaci Hospital,

at the age of 73 due to a heart attack.

Major works

*''Sejarah sosial DKI Jakarta Raya'' (in Indonesian) nglish: 'The Social History of Jakarta' Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Direktorat Sejarah dan Nilai Tradisional, Proyek Inventarisasi dan Dokumentasi Sejarah Nasional, 1984. *''The Kapitan Cina of Batavia, 1837-1942: A History of Chinese Establishment in Colonial Society''. Jakarta: Djambatan, 1996. *''Growing pains: the Chinese and the Dutch in colonial Java, 1890-1942''. Jakarta: Yayasan Cipta Loka Caraka, 2002. *''Sejarah para pembesar mengatur Batavia'' (In Indonesian) nglish: 'A History of the Officialdom in Charge of Batavia' Jakarta: Masup Jakarta, 2007. *''Membaca sumber menulis sejarah'' (In Indonesian) nglish: 'Reading Sources. Writing History' Jakarta: Penerbit Ombak, 2011.

References

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