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.

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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 ...

Step into the world of 1950s Rydell High, where leather jackets, pink skirts, and unforgettable music take center stage!

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia -- Allied bombers, under a full moon, smashed at the busy Japanese harbor of Rabaul, on New Britain, and Amboina, in the Dutch East Indies, Wednesday night ...

A request emerged from Reynhard Sinaga's parents to the Indonesian government for their son to be returned to their homeland.

In what amounts to one of the great real estate disasters in history, navigator and former boss hog of the Dutch East Indies Company, Willem Janszoon dropped anchor at Cape York in 1602 but shot ...

More than a year after the Japanese surrender in 1945, the house at 23 Ridout Road became the official residence of the Dutch chef de poste in Singapore. Before the war, the Consul General had always ...

Though it is unclear who may have carried out the sabotage, there is already speculation that Russia—or actors working at its ...