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Dutch East Indies Summary In the twentieth century, the Netherlands Indies gradually became constitutionally distinct from the Netherlands. The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, (Dutch: Nederlands-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda) was the name of the colonies set up by the Dutch East India Company, which came under administration of the Netherlands during the 19th century (see Indonesia). Arctic and Oceania: Netherlands New Guinea (Indonesian Irian Jaya) www.bookrags.com /Dutch_East_Indies   (1280 words)

Between Ambon and Amsterdam - Wim Tehupeiory The Moluccan doctor Willem Karel (Wim of Empie) Tehupeiory was born in 1883 in Ema on the Moluccan island of Ambon in the Netherlands Indies. In 1909, after his return to the Netherlands Indies, Tehupeiory established an Ambonsch Studiefonds (Ambonese Study Grant Fund) to enable gifted Ambonese youngsters to study at universities in the Netherlands Indies or in the Netherlands. At the Colonial Education Congress in The Hague in 1919 he argued in favour of the establishment of a Netherlands Indies university, including a faculty of medicine through expansion of the Stovia Institute. www.iisg.nl /collections/tehupeiory   (565 words)

CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger; KNIL) was the army of the Netherlands in its former colony of the Netherlands East Indies (also known as the Dutch East Indies, and later known as Indonesia). As such, KNIL was involved in many campaigns against indigenous groups in the Netherlands East Indies including the Padri War (1821-1845), the Java War (1825-1830), crushing the Puputan (the final resistance of Bali inhabitants to colonial rule) of 1849, and the prolonged Aceh War (1873-1901). After Aceh, the Netherlands East Indies were considered "pacified", with no large-scale armed opposition to Dutch rule until World War II, and the KNIL served a mainly defensive role protecting the Dutch East Indies from the possibility of invasion by foreign countries. encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=KNIL   (770 words)

Netherlands Antilles - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography The island of Aruba was part of the Netherlands Antilles until 1986, when it was granted a "status apart", and became a separate part of the kingdom. The head of state is the ruling monarch of the Netherlands, who is represented in the Netherlands Antilles by a governor. A large part of the Netherlands Antilleans descends from European colonists and African slaves that were brought and traded here from the 17th to 19th century. www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Netherlands_Antilles   (1196 words)

Dutch East Indies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, (Dutch: Nederlands-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda) was the name of the colonies set up by the Dutch East India Company, which came under administration of the Netherlands during the 19th century (see Indonesia). The United States pressured the Netherlands to surrender West New Guinea to Indonesia in August under terms negotiated in New York City in a document called the New York Agreement. Arctic and Oceania: Netherlands New Guinea (Indonesian Irian Jaya) en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Netherlands_East_Indies   (874 words)

Netherlands The Netherlands did not purchase this tank for use by their soldiers. After the capitulation of the the Netherlands East Indies more Marmon Herrington tanks were delivered to Suriname and the Antilles where they were used by the Korps Mariniers (the Netherlands Marine Corps). More on the Netherlands Marine Corp: During WW2 a brigade was formed in the US called the Mariniers Brigade, also called Marbrig. mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/hol/Netherlands.htm   (2511 words)

Dutch Imperialism: 1830 to 1910 The burden fell especially upon the Netherlands Indies, since the Dutch had lost many of their other colonies to the British during the Napoleonic wars (including South Africa and Sri Lanka), and since Belgium with its business and industry broke away from the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830. Demonstration in Batavia, led by Baron van Hoevell (a Dutch Reformed minister), petitions the King of the Netherlands for freedom of the press, public secondary schools, and representation for the Netherlands Indies in the States General. In 1863, the government of the Netherlands used profits from the exploitation of the Netherlands Indies to compensate former slaveholders in Suriname in South America, after slavery was abolished there. www.henrynugroho.org /sejarah/sejarah05.html   (3981 words)

2. Indonesia (Netherlands East Indies). 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History Two movements created that were internationalist in orientation: the PKI, or Indies Communist Party (Perserikatan Komunis di India), joined the Comintern. Japan announced that should hostilities in Europe be extended to the Netherlands, Japan wished to see the status quo in the Netherlands East Indies preserved. The Netherlands government in exile and the Netherlands East Indies declared war on Japan. www.bartleby.com /67/2456.html   (589 words)

Netherlands New Guinea Netherlands New Guinea was the official name of western New Guinea while it was a colonial possession of the Netherlands. In 1949, when the rest of Netherlands Indies became fully independent as Indonesia, the Dutch retained sovereignty over western New Guinea, and took steps to prepare it for independence as a separate country. National anthem of Netherlands New Guinea as decreed by the Governor-General on 18 November 1961. home.planet.nl /~ooije290/country_netherlands_new_guinea.htm   (297 words)

Fact of Irian Jaya These were the Netherlands Constitution of 1948 and the Netherlands Report on its colony to the United Nations in 1949. The transfers of administration from the Netherlands to the UNTEA (United Nations) took place on 1 October 1962, in accordance with Article V and VI of the New York Agreement, in a ceremony when the UN flag was raised and flown side by side with that of the Netherlands. Later, on 31 December 1962, the Netherlands flag was replaced by the Indonesian flag and flown next to the UN flag. www.indonesiamission-ny.org /humanR/irianjaya.htm   (2036 words)

Perang Dunia II: 1940 to 1945 Netherlands Indies government declares a state of siege, and places the Indies on a wartime footing. Netherlands Indies government replies that no concessions to Japan will be made, and that all strategic products (including oil and rubber) have been contracted for shipment to Britain and the United States. In the early 1940s, he was a tireless advocate for the Netherlands Indies, frustrating Japan in negotiations while quietly pleading with Britain and the USA for defense supplies. www.gimonca.com /sejarah/sejarah07.shtml   (3314 words)

The Netherlands East Indies and the Pacific War The Netherlands had joined an economic embargo organised by the United States to deprive Japan of the resources it needed to sustain its military forces in their war against China. Holland – the homeland of the Netherlands East Indies – was under German occupation and the Dutch government in exile in London. The only part of the Netherlands East Indies to escape Japanese occupation was the district around the small town of Merauke in the southeast corner of Dutch New Guinea, near the border with Australian New Guinea. www.awm.gov.au /alliesinadversity/essay/index.asp   (2053 words)

Columbia Encyclopedia- Netherlands Antilles - AOL Research & Learn Willemstad, on Curaçao, is the capital of the Netherlands Antilles. Slavery was abolished in 1863 and the economy faltered until the oil industry began to flourish in the 20th cent. The Netherlands Antilles became autonomous in 1954, and Aruba was separated from the group in 1986. reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/netherlands-antilles/20051206230509990001   (346 words)

Science and Scientists in the Netherlands Indies by Pieter Honig and Frans Verdoorn Science and Scientists in the Netherlands Indies, ed. This book, published under the sponsorship of the government of the Netherlands Indies in 1945, consists of a series of articles describing various aspects of the natural sciences, both pure and applied, in the Netherlands Indies. The studies of Eijkman on beri-beri in the Netherlands Indies, the botany, geology, anthropology and geography of the Netherlands Indies are among the branches of science considered in this volume. www.knaw.nl /cfdata/indonesia/honig_verdoorn.cfm   (294 words)

Statement by the Secretary of State on the Netherlands Indies, April 17, 1940   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The Netherlands Indies are very important in the international relationships of the whole Pacific Ocean. Intervention in the domestic affairs of the Netherlands Indies or any alteration of their status quo by other than peaceful processes would be prejudicial to the cause of stability, peace, and security not only in the region of the Netherlands Indies but in the entire Pacific area. All peaceful nations have during recent years been earnestly urging that policies of force be abandoned and that peace be maintained on the basis of fundamental principles, among which are respect by every nation for the rights of other nations and nonintervention in their domestic affairs, the. www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/WorldWar2/hull7.htm   (313 words)

Royal Netherlands East Indies Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It was involved in many campaigns against indigenous groups in the Netherlands East Indies including the Padri War (1821-1845), the Java War (1825-1830), Bali (1849), and the war of Aceh (1873-1901). After Aceh, the Netherlands East Indies were pacified, and the KNIL served a mainly defensive role protecting the Dutch East Indies from invasion by foreign countries. As a result of this, the KNIL was the main defense against the Japanese in the Netherlands East Indies during WWII. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Netherlands_East_Indies_Army   (448 words)

KITLV Homepage - KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies at Leiden was founded in 1851. Its objective is the advancement of the study of the anthropology, linguistics, social sciences, and history of Southeast Asia, the Pacific Area, and the Caribbean. KITLV is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam.. www.kitlv.nl   (397 words)

Netherlands   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The Netherlands has a total area of 41,526 sq km (16,033 sq mi), of which 33,939 sq km (13,104 sq mi) is land surface. The overall population density is 382 persons per sq km (990 per sq mi), making the Netherlands one of the most densely populated countries in the world. The Netherlands has no official religion, but the Reformed Church has had a close association with the Dutch state since the founding of the Dutch Republic. www.telleurope.org /Netherlands.htm   (495 words)

Netherlands - Search Results - MSN Encarta Jan Peter Balkenende, prime minister of the Netherlands Balkenende, Jan Peter, born in 1956, conservative Dutch politician and prime minister of The Netherlands since 2002. Netherlands Antilles (Dutch De Nederlandse Antillen), integral part of the Netherlands, comprising two island groups of three islands each, the... encarta.msn.com /Netherlands.html   (90 words)

Netherlands East Indies - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The emergence of technological development and The question of native identity in the Netherlands East Indies. Kettle on a Slow Boil: Batavia's Threat Perceptions in the Indies' Outer Islands, 1870-1910. Immigration as a colonial inheritance: post-colonial immigrants in the Netherlands, 1945-2002. www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-NethEInd.html   (450 words)

Overseas Governors (The Netherlands)   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies used the national tricolour with a red-white-blue pennant. First the Governors of Aceh, Celebes and some other areas in the Dutch Indies, and of Curaçao (as the Netherlands Antilles were known before 1948) and Suriname used the national tricolour, with in the red stripe two white balls. By Order in Council of 11 October 1986 (effective 1 January 1987) the flag for the Governor of the Netherlands Antilles was changed; in the miniature flag of the Netherlands Antilles one star was dropped. flagspot.net /flags/nl-govs.html   (280 words)

indonesiaphoto.com - History of Indonesia #5:The Netherlands Indies Empire In fact, it brought the Netherlands handsome profits, increased the conspicuous consumption of the indigenous elite, enriched European officials and Chinese middlemen, but was a terrible burden for Javanese villagers. These profits erased the colonial government's deficits, retired old VOC debts, financed the building of the Netherlands state railroad, funded the compensation of slaveholders after the abolition of slavery in the colony of Suriname, and paid for Dutch expansion into Sumatra and the eastern archipelago. Eurasians, usually the children of European fathers and Indonesian mothers, were legally classified as European under Netherlands Indies law and played an important role in colonial society; but as trekkers outnumbered blijvers, the Eurasians found themselves increasingly discriminated against and marginalized. www.indonesiaphoto.com /content/view/34/46   (3104 words)

East Indies In the rest of the Pacific, the Army was to protect the territory of the "Associated Powers" (Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States) and support naval forces in the defense of sea communications and coastal frontiers. ABDACOM boundaries enclosed an enormous expanse of land and water: Burma, Malaya, Okinawa, Formosa, the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, New Guinea, the Solomons, New Hebrides, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand Tasmania, and the northern coast of Australia. Pacific to the islands of the East Indies, New Guinea, and the Solomons. www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/eindies/eindies.htm   (5683 words)

Netherlands Indies Bank Notes Coen was considered a national hero in the Netherlands, for leading the VOC on the path to dominance through his aggressive policies. She is mostly remembered as a prominent leader of the Dutch government in exile, and a great inspiration to the Dutch resistance during WWII. Netherlands Indies, an archipelago of more than 13,000 islands spread across 3000 miles in southeast Asia, was a Dutch colony 1602-1942. www.tomchao.com /as/as29.html   (224 words)

South East Asia, 1941-1942, Second World War British 3rd Hussar Tank Squadron in the Dutch East Indies, 1942, by Klemen L. et al. The Netherlands East Indies 1941-1942, by Klemen L. et al. Massacres in the Dutch East Indies, by Klemen L. et al. www.regiments.org /wars/20ww2/asia-se.htm   (268 words)

The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Also, the speed of the Japanese advances in the Netherlands East Indies meant that many historical records that could have useful in studying this struggle were lost or destroyed. The "Indies" was the Crown Jewel to the Japanese. The defeat of British led Indian forces and allied troops at the hands of a numerically inferior Asiatic army riding on bicycles, living on rice and in some cases superior weapons was to have fateful post war political and nationalist consequences for the European colonial held Far East. www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies   (3969 words)

The Black Dutchmen Some background The shortage of manpower in the Dutch colonial army became particularly acute in the wake of the Java war (1825-1830) which took the lives of 8,000 European soldiers and many more native soldiers, and the secession of Belgium in 1830 which meant that the national reservoir for army recruitment had shrunk considerably. Along the coast volunteers were few and far between, but the Kingdom of Ashanti, which since olden days had been on friendly terms with the Dutch and was a traditional supplier of slaves, was seen as the key to solving the manpower problem. On 18 March 1837 a contract between King William I of the Netherlands and Kwaku Dua I of Ashanti was duly signed. elwininternational.com /hitam.html   (2028 words)

Netherlands News Periodicals Netherlands News was published by the Netherlands Information Bureau, New York City, from July 15, 1941, to January 1, 1946. The purpose of Netherlands News was to bring war news regarding the Netherlands and the Netherlands East and West Indies to the American public. The purpose of Netherlands News Digest was similar to that of Netherlands News, but its format and size were different. www.und.edu /dept/library/Collections/og1184.html   (461 words)

Japan attacks January 15 against Netherlands Indies Netherlands Consul sources: Japan attacks January 15 against Netherlands Indies with light Naval force and transports against New Guinea simultaneously with Naval force and transports against Java. United Press sources: Two German vessels have been outfitted Shanghai with Japan guns as raiders, three German vessels being outfitted at Tsingtao and two at Canton. All German vessels in Japan controlled ports are to be outfitted as raiders before January 16. www.ibiblio.org /pha/timeline/401229apci.html   (69 words)

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