The word Indies comes from Latin: Indus (Names for India). The original name Dutch Indies (Dutch: Nederlandsch-Indië) was translated by the English as the Dutch East Indies, to keep it distinct from the Dutch West Indies. … 查看更多內容

Law and administration
Since the VOC era, the highest Dutch authority in the colony resided with the 'office of the governor-general'. During the Dutch East … 查看更多內容

The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) and its air arm, the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force (ML-KNIL), were … 查看更多內容

The Dutch school system was extended to Indonesians with the most prestigious schools admitting Dutch children and those of the Indonesian upper class. A second tier of schooling was based on ethnicity with separate schools for Indonesians, … 查看更多內容

Company rule
Centuries before Europeans arrived, the Indonesian archipelago supported various states, including commercially oriented coastal trading … 查看更多內容

In 1898, the population of Java numbered 28 million with another 7 million on Indonesia's outer islands. The first half of 20th century saw large-scale immigration of Dutch and … 查看更多內容

The economic history of the colony was closely related to the economic health of the mother country. Despite increasing returns from the Dutch system of land tax, Dutch finances … 查看更多內容