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Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Assignment 2 : Daendels Road

Nama   : Wiweko Adityo Pujo P
Kelas   : 3 eb 17
NPM   : 28210567

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The Great Post Road or known as Daendel’s Road is the road the access line connected between west and east at northern part of Java. Its long is about 1,000 km. It has initiated by Governor-General Herman Willem Daendels, this road is passing through Serang, Tangerang, Jakarta, Bogor, Sukabumi, Cianjur, Bandung, Sumedang, Cirebon, Brebes, Tegal, Pemalang, Pekalongan, Kendal, Semarang, Denak, Kudus, Rembang, Tuban, Gresik, Surabaya, Sidoarjo, Pasuruan, Probolinggo and Situbondo.

Daendels was a marshal appointed as a governor general of East Indies by Lodewijk Napoleon who ruling Holland. The ultimate target was handling military preparation in anticipating British navy attack that had blockaded Java Island. Daendel's most important military project in defending Java from British attack by constructing a highway connecting west and east corner of this island. The road was built by means of obliging indigenous rulers to mobilize people along the route to work it by force. This road had sacrificed thousands life in nearly a year of its building process. Later, the road was renowned as the Great Post Road (De GootePostweg) since Daendels also set off post and telegraph services at the moment of the making.

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