The New Version

The idea of having our own website for the member of Keluarga Besar Matindas dkk, was brought up sometime in mid year 2003. It took us another year to finally had the first version up and running, hosting it at 1and1.com server containing a very minimal information.

Years went by, guestbook was written, input was given, but we did not have either the time or energy to make the proper update. For that we would like to apologize to those individuals, who had written and not being responded appropriately. This time around we will introduce the use of FORUM, which will enable every single member to communicate against each other directly in a timely fashion.
 

Although this site is mainly established for the circle of Matindas Family, we are also thinking about the possibility of helping the relatives and close friends who needs to learn more about life in many different places around the globe, the weather, travel arrangement ,and some other aspects in life.
 

There will be pages that are open to public, and there will be pages that are restricted to the immediate family members, as it contains personal information that are only made available to the people that we trust. Those restricted pages will be password protected, the same password for every individual which will be changed from time to time. This password will be distributed to the members who have registered trough the mail-list that were collected during registration.

 We understand that  members of the Keluarga Besar, came from so many different ages, backgrounds , nationalities and or ethnic groups, and they too, have friends and relatives that they feel like sharing things with.

So we are thinking about granting special membership for a limited number of people who are not directly associated with our family ,  but either grew up with us, or being recommended by one of us.  Then of course we need to limit the amount of sponsorship per person to prevent it from getting too crowded.


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.

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.

 

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.