Transformasi Modernitas di Kota Medan: Dari Kampung Medan Putri Hingga Gemeente Medan

Abstract

Every city in Indonesia has a unique character. Medan is a city with a population that is
considered a mini Indonesia in the Dutch colonial era. It is in the city of Medan inhabited by
various tribes that according to Hamka one of the most blooming nation of the nation of
Indonesia development. But there is a unique in the development of Medan into a city. Basically,
the process of developing the city of Medan, not the thing that has been designed by the Dutch
colonial government, like other cities in Indonesia. The city of Medan is formed by the interests
of the capitalist entrepreneurs for this region as the economic axis of the plantation on the east
coast of Sumatra.