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Radio Kootwijk Bandung

A century of “Hallo Bandoeng”; wireless communication between The Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies

On May 5th 1923, the first regular radio-telegraph connection with the (then) Dutch East Indies was put into service, for this purpose a radio station had been built in Kootwijk and a receiving station in Malabar (35 Km south of Bandoeng). In 1916, the scientist C.J. de Groot stated that a long wave radio would

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