About Sekolah Pah Tsung

The Pah Tsung School was first established at the beginning of Indonesian independence around 1945. The idea originated from a group of Chinese Indonesians who saw that many children and young people were not attending school at the time.

Therefore, a secondary school was opened, with the majority of students being of Chinese descent. The name Pah Tsung is an abbreviation of Pah Tsen Tsung Sio, where Pah Tsen means Batavia and Tsung Sio means Junior High School. Thus, Pah Tsung means Junior High School located in Batavia. Later, when Batavia was renamed Jakarta, the school was renamed Yah Tsung, an abbreviation of Yah Tsen Tsung Sio. Yah Tsen means Jakarta. Therefore, Yah Tsung means Junior High School located in Jakarta.