INDONESIAN CONSULATE GENERAL IN NEW YORK

A BRIEF HISTORY

The Indonesian Consulate General in New York is a five-story and 50-foot-wide gray stone manse with bay windows. It was  built in 1894 by the Boston firm Peabody & Stearns as residence of the real estate investor John Emery. A curious feature of the Consulate is that it is a mirror-image, back-to-back twin of a townhouse at 8 East 69th Street, built by the same firm in 1892 for Charles L. Colby who was a member of the board of Colby College in Waterville, ME.

After the declaration of independence and establishment of the Republic of Indonesia on 17 August 1945, the Government appointed Mr. Imam Pamodjo, an American citizen of Indonesian extraction who worked at the Voice of America in New York, as honorary consul to represent the Government of Indonesia.

The office of the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia was first established in New York  in 1951. At that time it occupied premises in the Rockefeller Plaza.  After a decade of service at this original location, the office moved in May 1965 to its current site at 5 East 68th Street, New York, where the Indonesian Consulate for a while shared the building with the Indonesian Mission to the United Nations and the Indonesian Supply Mission. These two latter institutions had previously occupied an office at the Empire State Building.

By mid-May 1965, the Indonesian Supply Mission was closed and the Indonesian Mission to the United Nations moved to its present location on 38th Street, near the United Nations Headquarters.

The First Secretary at the Indonesian Embassy in Washington DC, Mr R.M Darmanto, was appointed the first Consul General in New York, serving from 1951-1952. The incumbent Consul General is the Honorable Trie Edi Mulyani, who assumed her official duties in March 2007.

Since its establishment in 1951, the Indonesian Consulate General in New York has consular jurisdiction over 15 States which include New York , Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Maryland, Virgina, West Virginia, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Delaware, South Carolina and North Carolina.  There are today some 13,800 Indonesian citizens in these 15 states.

INDONESIA IN A NUTSHELL
Located in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is an archipelagic country of more than 17,000 islands. This chain of islands, extends 1,100 miles north and south, straddling the equator between the Indian and Pacific oceans and linking the continents of Asia and Australia. This archipelago, the world’s largest, spans three time zones and stretches east to west across the globe some 3,200 miles, which is about equal to the distance from Florida to Alaska.