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  • Imdonesia
    The history of ceramic in Indonesia was began when the Hakka Chinese immigrants from the Kwantung and Fukien provinces came to Indonesia in the first half 18th century to work as gold miners in West Kalimantan and tin miners in Bangka and Biliton. These immigrants were presumably built the first high fired kiln site in Indonesia(Singkawang) to cater to the needs of the Chinese workers. They built a long tunnel looked like kiln as they called it tungku naga (dragon kiln). Such condition caused the rest of Indonesia did not produced high fired ceramic until the early 20th century, at the instigation of the Dutch.1 Until that time the history of Indonesian ceramics consisted mainly of earthenware and terracotta,which still can be found in Plered (West Java), Kasongan(Central Java), Klaten (Central Java), Cirebon (West Java),Lombok (West Nusa Tenggara).There are some quite well known pottery villages in Indonesia. And I will only mention some of them based on the datas that I found.