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In 1830, a new governor general, Johannes van den Bosch, was appointed to increase the exploitation of the Dutch East Indies' resources. The Cultivation System was implemented only on land controlled directly by the colonial government, thus exempting the Vorstenlanden (princely states) and the particuliere landerijen (private domains).
Jan 1, 2023 · Jan Pieterszoon Coen, who was appointed Governor-General in the Dutch East Indies in the early seventeenth century, blamed the rural migration to drained lands in the northern Netherlands for the lack of Dutch labor emigration to colonial areas (Geyl 1961). 3.3.1 East Indies
The idea of creating a railway line was a personal bet of the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, Baron Sloet van den Beele (Nurhayati 2014, p. 4). The arrival of rail transport in Java was a logical consequence of the implementation, in 1830, of the system of forced sowing or cultuurstelsel (hol/ndl) implemented by the Dutch to increase ...
During the Dutch East Indies era most governors-general were expatriate Dutchmen, while during the earlier VOC era most governors-general became settlers who stayed and died in the East Indies. Under the period of British control (1811–1816) , the equivalent position was the lieutenant-governor , of whom the most notable is Thomas Stamford ...
At the time the British took over governmental responsibilities of the Dutch East Indies, the European segment of society was still strongly Eurasian in nature. Even most Dutch governors-general had married into matriarchal Indo clans and the European segment of society was in fact dominated by Indo culture.
The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied forces attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands. The East Indies were targeted by the Japanese for their rich oil resources which ...
