Khouw Yauw Kie

Kapitein Khouw Yauw Kie
Kapitein Khouw Yauw Kie and his younger cousin, the future Majoor Khouw Kim An at Candra Naya
Born	Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Died	1908 Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Occupation	Kapitein der Chinezen, bureaucrat,
Years active	Late nineteenth century
Parent(s)	Luitenant Khouw Tjeng Po (father)
Relatives	Khouw Tjeng Tjoan, Luitenant der Chinezen (uncle) Khouw Tjeng Kee, Luitenant der Chinezen (uncle) Khouw Kim An, 5th Majoor der Chinezen (cousin) O. G. Khouw (cousin) Khouw Oen Hoei, Kapitein der Chinezen (cousin)

Khouw Yauw Kie, Kapitein der Chinezen (died in 1908), also spelt Khouw Yaouw Kee, was a high-ranking, Chinese-Indonesian bureaucrat. He was the first scion of the influential Khouw family of Tamboen to serve on the Chinese Council of Batavia (Dutch: Chinese Raad; Hokkien: Kong Koan).

Born in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, Khouw was the second son of Khouw Tjeng Po, Luitenant-titulair der Chinezen (died in 1883), and was as such a grandson of the tycoon Khouw Tian Sek, Luitenant-titulair der Chinezen (died in 1843). He was also a nephew of the landlords Luitenant Khouw Tjeng Tjoan and Luitenant Khouw Tjeng Kee. His father, uncles and grandfather held the honorary rank of Luitenant-titulair der Chinezen, proper to Chinese officials in the civil bureaucracy of colonial Indonesia, but without any of the substantive responsibilities.

As the issue of Chinese officers, Khouw held the colonial hereditary title of Sia. In 1883, Khouw was appointed by the colonial government as a substantive Luitenant der Chinezen with a seat on the Chinese Council of Batavia. He, thus, became the first member of his family to serve as a substantive Chinese officer and to sit on the Chinese Council. In 1887, he also became the first in his family to be further elevated to the higher rank of Kapitein der Chinezen. Khouw was in office during the tenure of Majoor der Chinezen Lie Tjoe Hong as the third Chinese headman of Batavia.

The English aviation pioneer Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, brother of Lord Baden-Powell, was a guest of the Kapitein while on a visit to Asia in the late nineteenth century. He wrote about Khouw's sumptuous dinner party during the 'feast of a thousand lanterns'. Another English writer, Arnold Wright, refers in his Twentieth Century Impressions of Netherlands India to Khouw's influence in Batavia.