Modern-day landmarks that were once known as Depok's primary shopping centers include Ramanda (now an autoshop plus education centre), Hero Supermarket (now Index Home Furnishings) etc. Depok has many local restaurants and has wide presence of international chains such as A&W Restaurant, Burger King, CFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts. Older malls or other notable shopping centers include Mall Depok, Depok Plaza, and SixtyOne Building, and Depok ITC. The table also includes the number of administrative urban villages ( kelurahan) in each district and its postal codes.Ĭulture Shopping and dining ĭepok has a growing eclectic collection of malls and traditional markets. The city of Depok is divided into eleven districts ( kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census.
Arifin Harun Kertasaputra ( acting) (2016).Mochammad Rukasah Suradimadja (1982–1984).Both mayor and members of legislative assembly are elected by direct vote. This date is commemorated as the date of the establishment of the city.ĭepok is headed by mayor, with legislative assembly. Then on 20 April 1999, the city of Depok was unified with some neighbouring districts of Bogor Regency to form an autonomous city of Depok (independent of the Regency) with an area of 200.29 km 2. In March 1982, Depok was reclassified as an administrative city within Bogor Regency and, in 1999, as a city headed by a mayor. Many of the original Depok families fled for their lives from Indonesia during the Indonesian revolution and now live in the Netherlands as part of the Indo community there. The ruling no longer stood after 1952, where the Depok presidency ceded its control of Depok to the Indonesian government except for a few areas.ĭuring the Bersiap (Indonesian civil war and war for independence from The Netherlands) period of 1945 much of Depok was destroyed and many of its inhabitants killed by 'Pemuda'. In 1871, the colonial government gave Depok a special status allowing the area to form its own government and president. Descendants of the original Depok families with the exception of the Sadokh family, still live in Indonesia, the Netherlands, Norway, Canada and the United States. The other families retained their original names and might have been (Roman Catholic) Christian already before joining Chastelein's Protestant church. Isakh, Jacob, Jonathans, Joseph, and Samuel were family names baptized by Chastelein after the slave families converted to Protestant Christianity. The original slave families of Depok are of Balinese, Ambonese, Buginese, Sundanese and Portuguese Indo, i.e., Mestizo and Mardijker descent. June 28 is designated as Depokse Daag (Depok Day) by the original Depok family, and on 28 June 2014, commemorating 300 years, they formally opened a 3-meter height monument on its own land, but it was prohibited by the Government as it referred to Dutch colonialization. The freed slaves are also referred to as the Mardijker's – the word Merdeka meaning freedom in Bahasa Indonesia. In 1714, the 12 slave families became landlords (forever as given to them with entitlement deeds of the owner Chastelien in his will) and freed men, women, and children. Today majority of Depok's population are adherent to Islam, except for the majority of the original Depok family.īefore his death on 28 June 1714, Chastelein had written a will that freed the slave families of Depok and gave them pieces of his land, converting slaves into landlords. Although the Sundanese name Depok, meaning hermitage or abode of one living in seclusion, was already in existence before the establishment of the congregation, some insist the acronym might have been the origin of the city's name. To this end, he established a local congregation named De Eerste Protestante Organisatie van Christenen (DEPOC). Besides cultivating the area with industrial plants with the help of the locals, Chastelein was active as a missionary, preaching Christianity to the indigenous Indonesians.
On, a former VOC officer Cornelis Chastelein bought the land with an area of 12.44 km 2, 6.2% the area of today's Depok. There is also a saying that the word "depok" itself comes from Sundanese meaning hermitage or abode of one living in seclusion. Depok word is an acronym of De Eerste Protestantse Organisatie van Christenen ( Indonesian: Organisasi Kristen Protestan Pertama, English: First Protestant Christian Organization).