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Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan
Tiong
Hoa
Hwee
Koan
was an
Indonesian Chinese
organization founded on
March 17
,
1900
in
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
.
Its
founders
included former
classmates
Lie Kim Hok
and
Phoa Keng Hek
Sia
, both of whom had been
educated
at
Sierk Coolsma's
missionary
school
in the
Dutch East Indies
. At first its
mission
was to
renew
and
spread
Confucian
ideas
and the general
level
of
knowledge
among the
Chinese-Indonesian population
of
the Indies
.