In the waning days of Dutch rule over Indonesia, a poor Chinese merchant bought the license to a bank named NV Nederlandsch lndische Spaar en Deposito (NISP) with his last assets and ran the bank successfully. By tradition, he was obligated to express his gratitude for his good fortune by paying homage to his ancestors’ burial place in China. Unexpected complications resulted in his return to Indonesia being hindered for sixteen long years. The responsibility for the bank, which had been ...