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A little bit about the
background of Matindas...
We are the sons, daughters, grandson, grand daughters
and the third and fourth generation of the
Matindas Family who moved out of Manado , Minahasa, and
settled in Kutaradja, Aceh, Indonesia in the late 19
century. These are the five brothers of Karel ,William,
Jopie, George and Eddie Matindas, who are the sons of
Gozal Matindas and Ani Gerung.
Gozal, the Cable Guy in Kutaradja, was tortured by
the Japanese during world war II, which contributed to
his death few years later. Following his death, his wife
moved to Palembang and then Jakarta and lived with Karel.
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Slowly initiated by Karel, one by one of those
brothers moved out to Batavia ( now Jakarta ), in Java
island. Karel initially joined the Police Force, and
later on switched to the Army, where he spent most of
his working life until retirement. Karel met Roos
in one of the "Apoteek" in Batavia ( so we were told ),
and later on got married, and blessed with 7 children,
Sonya, Billy, Ben, Olle, Buddy, Ola and Wiebe ( The
webmaster of this site ). They moved from city to city
in Indonesia, such as Ambon, Palembang, Makassar and
Jakarta.
William followed the lead of his elder brother
and for a while settled in Batavia. During the Communist
uprising in early 60's, William and his wife Fietje and
all of their children moved to The Netherlands, where
they spent the rest of their life in Trompet Straat in
Nijmegen. They are blessed with Bibin, Eric, Nona and
Bolle, who are each then found their own spouse.
Jopie, the third brother initially worked as
sailor, and later on married Yootje, and were
blessed with two children, Nona and Boll.
George, the adventurer, worked as Air Traffic
Controller, iniatially lived in Radjawali, Kemayoran but
later on moved to Papua, where he then remarried. His
children, among others are : John, Kiky,
Aries and Novell. ( these details will be updated, once
we got the complete story ).
Eddie, The Last Man Standing, is the youngest and
still alive. He married Henny after his graduation from
ITB in Bandung, and are blessed with four children,
Charles, Pingkan, Chris and Pam. Eddie lived in The
Netherlands for quite sometime, prior to heading home
for good, with his entire family. He worked in several
top oil companies and did travel a lot during his active
duty. He is now retired and enjoying his life with his
wife in Bintaro, Jakarta. If you follow the history of "Minahasa
folk Hero story" you'll notice that the original
Matindas, the Hero, had a wife by the name of Pingkan,
and so He named his eldest daugter, Pingkan Matindas (
now married to Ferry ).
The complete Family-Tree is currently being developed by
Chris in Jakarta. And as soon as they are ready, we will
put it in one of the special Page.
We are currently scattered around the Globe, with most
of us currently living in Jakarta, and Bandung,
Indonesia.
The descendants of William are still in The Netherlands.
Barbara ( Billy's wife ) and their children Denise and
Tobias are living in Bremen, Germany
Ruly and Orry, the children of Sonya are living in
Australia, with their spouses and children.
Timothy, the son of Wiebe and Astrid is living in
Vancouver, Canada, while his parents are living in Seoul
Korea.
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The Objectives..
We are hoping to make this site as
one of the media that will enable members of the family to share their experiences and
at the same time a media to ask
question(s),
believing that one of us will be able to come up with
answers, or if not ..perhaps pointing out direction as
to where to proceed.
As this is the second version of the website of the
whole family, we will keep it open to
critics, suggestion and requests. In few months,
hopefully we will be in the position to finalize the
track of this website. In the mean time please keep
posting the forum, with as many topics as possible.
How to
register.
First you will need to create a User Name and
a Password, in the Forum page by clicking Forum button
in the welcome page or clicking Forum at the dropdown
menu or at the bottom of any page within
www.matindas.com. We strongly recommend the use of a name
that is easily associated with your identity ,so that
everyone is aware about who is saying what. As far as
language goes, well , you are free to use any language
that you feel like to, but please use it responsibly.
Your data will be kept private, and only the
members will be able to view the "Name-List", which
again only shows a limited numbers of your record ( such
as name, e-mail , Nationality and Tel Numbers).
matindas.com e-mail
As most of us happen to have the same needs of
information, we provide each
member and also his respective partner , a free e-mail address of
yourname@matindas.com.
ie
nona@matindas.com
or ungke@matindas.com
To make it
easy for those who would like to get in touch with you, we would
like to recommend the use of the same user name as
in the forum, ie
username@matindas.com. The most
important thing is that you let us know as soon as
possible, as it will be on FIFO ( first in first
out ) basis.
If this sounds too
complicated for you to grab, just let us know, and we
will explain it to you in details. But if you prefer to keep your old e-mail .. that is fine too. We
can also forward yourname@matindas.com mail to your
current e-mail. For those who like to read
their e-mails in pop3 account, please write to us, and
we will tell you how to set it up in
Microsoft Outlook.
In the mean time, should you need to know more about
us, please feel free to write to
admin@matindas.com.
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