Explore the rise of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia, from the arrival of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to the establishment of the Dutch East Indies. Learn how trade, military conquest, and ...

His current research focuses on the history of the establishment of the Reformed church in the East Indies during the time of the Dutch East India Company.

Indonesia was the first country to declare independence in the wake of the Second World War, shortly after the surrender of Japan, which had occupied what was then known as the Dutch East Indies since ...

Rucksack made for Dutch East Indies Army. Japanese issued Prisoner's of War with this captured equipment. It belonged to Jim Smith from Salisbury. He was a radar technician in the RAF when he was ...

Nevertheless, this research method is not intended in any sense to diminish the multifaceted realities of the Dutch East Indies at the time. In fact, by exploring conditions from a Dutch colonial ...