17 September 2006

House of Sampoerna (East Java)


Situated in “old Surabaya”‚ this stately Dutch colonial-stylecompound was built in 1862 and is now a preserved historical site. Previously used as an orphanage managed by the Dutch‚it was purchased in 1932 by Liem Seeng Tee‚ the founder of Sampoerna‚ with the intent of it being used as Sampoerna’s first major cigarette production facility.


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