Survey of Southeast Asian Art & Culture
Postcard Project
Topic : History of Chew Jetty
Introduction
The largest and most intact of the clan jetties, Chew Jetty consists of 75 elevated houses, several Chinese temples, a community hall and lots of tourist facilities, all linked by elevated wooden walkways.
Livelihood at Chew Jetty
Children, especially, roam freely in between one houses to another. Space is so partitioned that what is occurring in one such context may be completely unknown to those occupying another, virtually adjacent space just a few feet away. On hot days people tend to remain indoors more but come out in the evenings to sit on their front porches to talk and cool off. People on the Jetty enjoy a relatively good quality of life, despite the incessant heat alleviated only by the sea breezes that rarely penetrate the center of the Jetty. They mostly do not live in fear of their neighbours, and their doors are always open.
Conclusion
Thousands of devotees and tourists would turn up to give a rousing send-off to the float that carries images of the deities. The residents too have seen a decrease in vessels docking at the harbour since the 1980s. Compared with the days of old when hundreds of vessels docked at the jetties, an average of only about 50 ferries are seen these days.
Progress
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