Hotel des Indes (Batavia)
Coordinates: 6°09′55.1″S 106°49′11.1″E / 6.165306°S 106.819750°E
Hotel des Indes was one of the oldest and most prestigious hotels in Asia. Located in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (modern day Jakarta, Indonesia), the hotel had accommodated countless famous patrons throughout its existence from 1829 to 1971. Before being named Hotel des Indes, a name suggested by the writer Multatuli, it was named ‘Hotel de Provence’ by its first French owner and for a short spell went by the name ‘Hotel Rotterdam’. After Indonesian independence it was renamed ‘Hotel Duta Indonesia’, until it was demolished to make way for a shopping mall.
This hotel should not be confused with ‘Hotel des Indes’ in The Hague, the Netherlands.
The city Batavia was founded by the VOC and became the main Dutch settlement in South East Asia. In 1747 the Dutch already started to build on the land where later the ‘Hotel Des Indes’ would arise. In 1760 the site was bought by the VOC Governor General Reynier de Klerck.
In 1824, the land was bought by the Dutch East Indies government. In 1828 a boarding school for girls was constructed. However the boarding school was soon abandoned because due to the lack of European females in the Dutch East Indies its teachers kept leaving to get married.
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