BETAWI TRIBE, Jakarta

Betawi tribe is a tribe of people in Indonesia are generally the population residing in Jakarta.A number of parties argued that the Betawi tribe comes from the mating-mawin ethnic and nation in the past. Biologically, those who claim to be descendants of the bloody Betawi is a mixture of various tribes and nations brought by the Dutch to Batavia. What is called the Betawi people or tribe actually counted newcomer in Jakarta. This ethnic group was born from a combination of various other ethnic groups who had already been living in Jakarta, such as the Sundanese, Javanese, Arabic, Balinese, Bugis, Makassar, Ambon, Malay and Chinese.Yet others argue that the Betawi tribe comes from the mating-mawin interethnic and nation in the past is not entirely true because the existence of the Betawi tribe by historians Sagiman existing MD and Jakarta and surrounding inhabited since the stone age or the age Neoliticum new, indigenous Betawi is a resident of Nusa Jawa as the Sundanese, Javanese, and Madurese. [1] Opinion Sagiman MD is in line with the issuing Tjandarasasmita Uka monografinya "Greater Jakarta Area From Prehistoric Times Until the Kingdom of Padjadjaran (1977)" Indigenous Jakarta revealed that there have been in the years around 3500-3000 BC.But according to some researchers who disagree with Lance Castles've researched on Population Jakarta where research journal published in 1967 by Cornell University said that biologically, they are claiming to be the descendants of the bloody Betawi is a mixture of various tribes and nations brought by the Dutch to Batavia . This ethnic group was born from a combination of various other ethnic groups who had already been living in Jakarta, such as the Sundanese, Javanese, Balinese, Bugis, Makassar, Ambon, and Malay settlers and tribes, such as Arabic, Indian, Chinese, and European.Lance Castles on his research focuses on the history of the four sketches:

    Daghregister, the diary in 1673 that made the Dutch who live in the castle town of Batavia.
    Note Thomas Stanford Raffles in his History of Java in 1815.
    Note the population at Encyclopaedia van Nederlandsch Indie 1893
    Population census which made the Dutch in 1930.Where all the sketches sejarahanya started in the year 1673 (At the End of the 17th Century), sketching is what some other experts perceived to be inadequate to explain the origin of Betawi tribe because the existing Babad Tanah Java in the 15th century (1400s AD) 've found the word "Betawi State" [2]Table of contents