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The biggest migration of my family occurred when my father’s great grand father was alive. He was named Tan Kien. He was born around the beginning of the 1900’s in July, but the day is unknown. He lived in the south east part of the mainland of China called Xiamen. Xiamen means “The South Gate” in english, which gives a big clue about it being a huge port. He worked as a merchant trading cloth, silk and other Chinese products to Indonesia. Back then in China the amount of money they get from local work is not a lot. Chinese are business minded. If there work doesn’t go good they try to go to other countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and most other South East Asia. But from out of all the countries most Chinese people went to Indonesia for work because Indonesia has a lot of island and have a lot of natural resources.

Xiamen

Map of Xiamen

My mother’s great grand father migrated to China in a similar situation around the 1900’s. From a place called Moyan in the mainland of China, they migrated to Jakarta around the same period as my father’s side great grand father. They migrated to the capital city, Jakarta located on the Java island.

Map of Medan and Pematang Siantar

My mother’s side great grand father met a women in Jakarta and my Mother’s side Grand father was born named Andoyo Hartoyo around the 1930’,s. The last name of my mother’s side has now become an Indonesian name. He worked in his fathers shop since when he was young and the store is now still going on. It is located in the central city of Jakarta.

1961 October 30 my father Tan Ui Sian was born as the youngest in the family. He had two siblings Tan Ui Chin which is my aunt and Tan Ui Sik which is my uncle. They grew up in Pematang Siantar and they moved to Medan because of job purposes. My grand father became a teacher in Medan. Few years later when my dad was in high school they moved to Jakarta because of my grand father’s work again. He worked in a Glass company an moved there in 1974. 1978 my aunt, uncle and grand mother left my father in Medan and left to Jakarta for school and work purposes and  in 1979 my father followed his family to Jakarta for university.

Jakarta

1963 October 1 my mother Grace Hartoyo was born as the oldest in her family. She had 3 siblings Joe Hartoyo, Morgen Hartoyo and Sanny Hartoyo. She grew up in the central part of Jakarta where it was very, very crowded and busy. It is where the biggest train station are and it is also where a lot of bus station is located.

In 1985 both my father and mother went to Trisakti University in Jakarta and met each other. In 1985 both my parents started working in an airline company called Cathay Pacific for almost eleven years.

1995 October 27 I Kenji Tanoto was born in Jakarta. From then my father got a job in a paper company called APP and when I was three months old we moved to Singapore first in a place called Serangoon. Then when I became nine months old we moved to Yokohama, Japan because of the change in my fathers work location.

My family was all from China which makes me not look like an Indonesian person and now in Indonesia you will see more Chinese people being successful rather than the local people, because of the life style Chinese people had in the past.

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