Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, was the Dutch colony that is now modern Indonesia and the Malacca state of Malaysia. The main city was Batavia, now called Jakarta.
It was made from the colonies of the Dutch East India Company that came under the control of the Netherlands in 1800.
In the Java War (1741–1743), Chinese rebels worked with Javanese Muslim rebels who forcibly circumcised Dutch men and enslaved Dutch women and children.[1][2]
During World War II it was part of the Japanese Empire. In 1945 the Japanese had surrendered their colonies in the pacific, thus losing control of Indonesia, and Indonesian leaders made a declaration of independence. They fought a war of independence until the Netherlands gave Indonesia sovereignty in December 1949.
Dutch East Indies Media
- Royal barge or prau pengluput with dragon head, Bengawan Solo river (near gresik).jpg
A sketch of life in the sultanate in the Indonesian region before the arrival of Europeans depicts a boat on the Bengawan Solo River.
- Dutch East Indies Expansion.gif
Expansion of the Dutch East Indies in the Indonesian Archipelago
- Benda sejarah diduga senjata Belanda.jpg
The Dutch used their early historical weapons to conquer kingdoms in the archipelago at that time.
- Prince Diponegoro of Java.jpg
Prince Diponegoro was a noble figure who fought against the Dutch conquest which overwhelmed the Dutch. Known in the Diponegoro war
- COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Man poseert tussen megalieten bij Batoeberak TMnr 10025819.jpg
Collectie Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen Figure Megalith found year 1931 Location of the Kepaksian Pernong Sekala Brak in Hanibung Batu Brak, independent Dutch control securing British settlements in Sumatra.
- COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Olieverfschilderij voorstellende het Kasteel Batavia gezien van Kali Besar west met op de voorgrond de vismarkt TMnr 118-167.jpg
Painting of the city of Batavia during the Dutch colonial period, which was previously Sunda Kelapa, owned by the Banten Sultanate.
- Bezoek van generaal Tojo aan Java.webm
Dutch East Indies during the Japanese occupation when Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo visited the island of Java.
- Indisch tuinfeest op Arendsdorp Weeknummer 27-15 - Open Beelden - 16627.ogv
Dutch newsreel dated 1927 showing a Dutch East Indian fair in the Netherlands featuring Indo and Indigenous people from the Dutch East Indies performing traditional dance and music in traditional attire
References
- ↑ Raffles, Thomas Stamford (1817). The History of Java, Volume 2. p. 218.
- ↑ Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford (1817). "The" History of Java, Volume 2. Black, Parbury, and Allen, Booksellers to the Hon. East-India Company ... and John Murray. p. 218.
