Opium & Spirit Farm

Do you know that St Joseph school received donation from Opium & Spirit Farm? Sounds weird, ya? It sounds like drug lords in nice suit and fancy long limo giving donations to town's best school so that their kids can enroll in. It also probably one way to do clean and easy money laundry. And the name: Opium and Spirit Farm. You can imagine how high your spirit will be after smoking pot. Well, probably I watched too many Hollywood movies...

But I guess this is a different case. Ages ago during the colonial time this opium business actually legal in some part of Asia. And looking at the amount of donation made (written in there on teh top of the list), the image of the rich drug mob suddenly vanished...

Today the school has been relocated in 1987 and after restoration the building is used as Art Museum, but you can find this benefactor's tables in the main entrace. And Semarang's taukee Oei Tiong Ham is listed as one of the heavy contributors, donating thousands of dollars.