The Deli Bank; ( zh, 日里银行) was the first Chinese bank in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

. It was founded in Medan, Indonesia, in 1907 by the Tjong brothers,

Tjong A Fie Tjong A Fie, Majoor der Chinezen (1860–1921), or Tjong Yiauw Hian (spelled in Hakka Chinese dialect, ; Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Chông Yeu Hian), birth name Zhang Hongnan (), was a Hakka people, Hakka Chinese businessman, banker and Kapitan Cin ...

, (1860-1921) and

Tjong Yong Hian Tjong Yong Hian (1850–1911) was a Hakka Chinese businessman and Kapitan Cina, kapitan who greatly contributed to the development of society in the city of Medan around the early 1900s. He is the brother of Tjong A Fie, his kapitan successor ...

(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 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-kuan Hsieh Yung-kuan, Kapitein der Chinezen (; born in 1848), also known as Cheah Meng Chi (), Cheah Choon Seng or Tjia Tjoen Sen (), was a Hakka businessman and bureaucrat from Meixian, Guangdong, China, who was Chinese Vice Consul in Penang from 18 ...

was the fourth founding director of the bank.The Mandarin-Capitalists from Nanyang: Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernisation of China 1893-1911 By Michael R. Godley; Contributor Patrick Hannan, Denis Twitchett; Published by Cambridge university press, 2002

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