A former IBM manager reflects on a pivotal memory linked to the 1998 song All I Need by Air. The lyrics sparked a realization ...

The Koning Willem de Tweede was meant to do trading between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, a former colony that’s ...

The ship was laden with silver coins and carried somewhere between 320 and 340 passengers bound for the city of Batavia in present-day Indonesia, which was both the ship’s namesake and the ...

For decades, the penal sanctions regime had faced criticism within the Dutch East Indies’ own legislative body, the Volksraad in Batavia, where reform-minded members had repeatedly challenged the ...

War’s New Stage. At almost the same moment The Netherlands East Indies and Australia got their wind up. From Batavia orders went out for Dutch ships to put into the nearest friendly port ...

JAPAN'S economic and political expansion southward is bringing her ever closer to the Netherlands East Indies ... of the Netherlands Indies. She depends on them, for example, for half of her oil ...

The Dutch East Indies were crucial for the VOC ... For example, the VOC grew cash crops in Jakarta in the early seventeenth century (then known as Batavia by the Dutch). This was a clear move from ...

It was founded as a private merchant company that was granted a two-decade-long monopoly by the government for spice trading, mainly in the Dutch East Indies, known today as ... a time when a trip ...

With a diploma from Delft, Ghijsels began working in the Dutch East Indies in late January 1910 as an architectural expert at the Municipal Work Department in Batavia. In 1912, he left the Municipal ...