Adventist History in Indonesia: Chronology

Indonesia, A Chronology 

1893

R. W. Munson opened a home for orphans in Singapore.

1899

November 11, R. W. Munson leaves New York for Padang, Sumatra to work among the Chinese there. They meet Tay Hong Siang, one of the first three boys to be admitted to the Singapore orphanage, now working in Padang. Tay and his wife and baby come to live and work with the Munson family. Tay has already found one Chinese man was has accepted the Gospel and has already begun keeping the Sabbath.

1900

Munson begins an English language school in Padang. He calls it a mission school, "pure and simple".
December 1, The Australasian Union Record presents a major mission study of what was then called Malaysia by R. W. Munson

1902

E.H. Gates visits with Munson. They travel to Deli, Penang, and other places. They seek to extend the work.

1904

Pastor G. F. Jones and wife and
Brother R. A. Caldwell sail for the East Indies to open a mission in Singapore.

1905

Brother and Sister E. C. Davey to Singapore as medical missionaries.

1906

In February, Brother F. Parkin reached Singapore; an evangelical canvasser.

In the Dutch East Indies, to proselyte among the Mohammedans is forbidden by law; but there is no law to forbid the circulation of religious literature.

1909

R. W. Munson returns to Java from Australia as a translator at Soekaboemi
Miss Janz gives "to us oversight of her little colony of two hundred persons."

1910

The Malay Messenger of Truth Begins

1911

The first baptism in Java

1912

The first SDA Church organized on Java

1913

Tha Malaysian Union Mission organized, included: Sumatra and East and West Java

1921

Samuel Rantung's work leads to a church organazed in the Celebes.

1926

People from the Lake Toba region request instruction in the Bible. Some already keeping the Sabbath.

1927

Petition sent to Batavia requesting Religious Liberty for Central Sumatra. (Kime)

1929

Territory organized as the Netherlands East Indies Union Mission with 1700 members and 48 churches and companies.
West Java Mission, H. Eelsing reports.

• 22 Sabbath Schools, 698 members
• 7 Church Schools, 650 students

Central Sumatra (Batakland) Youngberg reports on work of Kime.

• Sister Kime very sick, they are on leave.
• School and Medical Work
• January 1929, Religious Liberty granted to Kime's work.

1940-1944

Dutch Government inters all Germans missionaries.

1952

Church Membership reaches 10 000

1962

Chruch Membership reaches 20 000

2003

Inodnesia divided into East Indonesian Union Conference and West Indonesian Union Mission;

• part of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division
• 1100 Churches
• 200 000 members

Sources: 

Land, G (2005). Historical Dictionary of Seventh-day Adventists: Historical Dictionaries of Religions Philosophies, and Movements, No. 56. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810853450, 9780810853454. 419 pages. Available as a Google Book ***Here*** 
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Australasian Union Record 
Asiatic Division Outlook