At the beginning of its presence, football was not too much in demand by most of the citizens of the Dutch East Indies themselves. Apart from not being the most popular sport, football was initially only played by the top castes in the social structure of society in the Dutch East Indies. This was also based on the attitude of the Colonial Government in the Dutch East Indies itself towards the Indigenous People.
According to Raymond Kennedy, Dutch Colonialism had the main characteristics, which included differences in skin color, and the long social distance between the colonized and the colonizers. This is reflected in the Social Stratification established by the Dutch East Indies Colonial Government.
The social stratifications are, among others, the first group, namely the Dutch and Europeans (White). While the second group is Foreign Easterners (Arabs, Chinese, Indians, etc.). And in the Third Group then the Natives. The division of groups and castes based on race, ethnicity, and skin color in the inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies was also ratified through the Article 163 Indische Staatsregeling Law.
The social class distinction based on the color of the skin is also followed by the differentiation of the rights and obligations received. It aims to maintain the prestige of the Colonial Government by creating the Superiority of the White People and the Inferiority of the Indigenous People. From here, we can imagine how the Social Gap in the lives of the Dutch East Indies community can also be found in sports activities, including football.
As a result of this social stratification, discrimination was born. Discrimination exists in various sectors of the life of the Indigenous People in the Dutch East Indies, including football. However, this is an irony, because at the beginning of its presence in the world, football was intended as a collective sport that knew no background and social class.
The class or class politics adopted by the Dutch colonial at that time also had an impact on football. Some clubs founded by certain ethnicities may only be filled by players belonging to their ethnicity. This has an impact on the emergence of European Football Clubs, Chinese National Football Clubs, and Indigenous Nations Football Clubs.
As each ethnic group prohibits inter-ethnic matches, different Clubs, Federations and versions of Football Competitions have emerged for each of these ethnicities. However, at first, it was only competitions made by Europeans that allowed inter-ethnic matches or allowed their clubs to be filled by ethnicities other than Europeans.
Clubs dominated by native Europeans and a small number of descendants (Indo) and natives who competed in Local Tournaments in several major cities in Java, then formed a city Football Federation which represented the entire Club from each city.
In the end they set up an Inter-Federation Competition representing the Participants' hometown Clubs. The first city federation football tournament to be held was represented by the Federation of four major cities in Java, namely Batavia, Surabaya, Bandung and Semarang, which was held at the end of August 1914 in Semarang, under the name Koloniale Tentoonstelling.
The winner of this tournament was the Batavia Football Federation (WJVB). The holder of the first trophy for this competition is the Captain of the Batavia Federation Team, namely Ben "Jos" Stom who is a former Dutch National Team (Timnas) player, and the holder of the record for his first appearance with the Dutch national team with 9 appearances.
The Inter-Federation Tournament is held every year in a different place. A year after the first tournament was held in Semarang, the following year a tournament called Koloniale Tentoonstelling-Beker was held in Batavia. In this tournament, WJVB was still reinforced by Ben "Jos" Stom, although the championship trophy was later lost because it was stolen in this second Competition.
To Be Continued...
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