History of the Coming of Lights to Indonesia
The lamp, as we know, is a device that produces light. But the "lamp" that first entered Indonesia was not the lamp that we know today. On 19 November 1859, the first concession by the Dutch colony minister was granted to install a general gas lighting system in Batavia and its surroundings, wrote Rudolf Mrazek in Engineer of Happy Land (2006). Because before electricity, the source of city lights was gas, and the Nederlandsch-Indische Gasmaatschappij (NIGM), which was founded in 1864, was one of its main suppliers.
When electricity finally started flowing in Batavia in 1897, its presence was considered to rival the gas business in the Dutch East Indies (Land Rich in Natural Gas, 2005) because the electricity company in Batavia answered the public's need for more light, according to Mrazek.
Although many houses still don't use them, in the late 20th century, people, particularly the rich, started using incandescent lamps and then used the luminescent tube or fluorescent lamps until the early 21st century. From around 2015 to the present day, Indonesian citizens uses LED lights.
