Tengsing rubber villages in central Jakarta, Indonesia

The history of rubber tengsin has a long history,
According to one of the Elders Rubber Tengsin, Indeed at that time a lot of rubber trees, Rubber Tengsin was once a rubber plantation owned by ethnic Chinese named Tieng Shin Betawi. Here used to grow various kinds of forest trees. One of the rubber tree. This forest was later turned into a rubber plantation by Tieng Shin, Because of abundant wealth and a generous attitude of the natives make a lot of work on his plantation.

Husni MT, 60 years, the origin of the name of the area which now includes Golden Triangle Brass, derived from the name of the Chinese people very rich and generous named Shin Tan Tieng. Since both the heart and always give assistance to people around the village, Shin then Tieng quickly recognized by people around and always referred to the area as an area Tieng Shin Because the natives call it so hard to Tengsin only.
"People here used to live in prosperity, we usually eat from the forest is quite abundant. Many of the vegetables that grow fast. So do not just take the already purchasing residence," said Chairman of RT 06 RW 02 Rubber Tengsin this, Husni admitted if his grandfather Saidi is Tieng friend Shin. No hayal himself knows this history. "Tieng Shin've been here since 1890, he has a house now demolished the Tower of Batavia," he said.

Tieng-owned rubber plantations Shin finally evicted after the building of Bung Karno Stadium. "Jalan KH Mas Mansyur former rubber plantation, but eventually cut down to create roads," he recalls, shady gardens with rubber trees finally disappeared, but Shin Tieng family traces still survive although it did not last long.

"After the death of Shin Tieng, children and grandchildren are still living, but not for long. Since home they also displaced, the trail was gone," he said.

Husni admitted Rubber Tengsin saddened by the current conditions. Citizens to be difficult, a slum neighborhood. The natives were not authorized by the attacks of skyscraper buildings that began to cover her from the sun, One by one they began to lift the foot from the rubber plantation.

Times across Krukut Tengsin Rubber plantation, too exposed to the impact of modernization. "First time nodes, we still love fishing, washing, and bathing. But now the water is dirty," he said softly, now just a piece of rubber Tengsin mass story and who always remembered the beauty of his rubber plantation. Rubber Tengsin an Urban Village in District Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta.

They lived on the land, including land Cemetery Rubber's famous bivouac area of ​​153 hectares.