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The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
Indonesia experienced a long colonial history under Dutch rule. This section discusses Indonesia's colonial past from the 1800s to the Japanese occupation. Indonesia Colonial History - Dutch Occupation - Dutch East Indies | Indonesia Investments
Fort de Kock. Fort de Kock was a 19th-century Dutch sconce fortification established over a hill in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Around the fortification, a new settlement grew, which eventually grew into the city of Bukittinggi, the second largest city in West Sumatra.
The Dutch fowk (Dutch: Nederlanders (help · info)) are an ethnic group native tae the Netherlands. Thay share a common cultur an speak the Dutch leid. Dutch fowk an thair stryndants are foond in migrant commonties warldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canadae, Australie, Sooth Africae, New Zealand, an the Unitit States.
As early as the 1st century CE Indonesian vessels made trade voyages as far as Africa. Picture: a ship carved on Borobudur, c. 800 CE. Part of a series on the History of Indonesia Timeline Prehistory Paleolithic Java Man 1,000,000 BP Flores Man 94,000–12,000 BP Neolithic Toba catastrophe 75,000 BP Buni culture 400 BCE Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms Kutai Kingdom 350–1605 Tarumanagara Kingdom ...
In 1603, the first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia was established in Banten, northwest Java. The official East Indies government, however, was not created until Pieter Both was made governor-general in 1610. In that same year, Ambon Island was made headquarters of the VOC's East Indies. Batavia was made the capital from 1619 onward.
The Dutch colonial empire ( Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies —mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company —and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands ...
