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The Dutch East Indies was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Dutch government in 1800. During the 19th century, the Dutch fought many wars against indigenous rulers and peoples, which caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. [ 4 ]
Dutch government rule. Dutch East Indies; No. Portrait Name Took office Left office Monarch; 1 Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (1755–1801) 16 August 1796
During the Dutch East Indies era the governor-general functioned as colonial chief executive, president of colonial government, as well as commander-in-chief of the colonial army. Until 1903 all government officials and organisations were formal agents of the governor-general and entirely dependent on the central administration of the office of ...
The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia.The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, which ceded Dutch Malacca, a governorate of the Dutch East Indies that was transferred to Great Britain has consolidated modern-day rule to the Malacca state of Malaysia.
The Dutch Ethical Policy (Dutch: ethische politiek, Indonesian: politik etis) was the official policy of the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) during the four decades from 1901 (under the Kuyper cabinet) until the Japanese occupation of 1942.
Taxation in the Dutch East Indies (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Government of the Dutch East Indies" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
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 Commissioners-General of the Dutch East Indies (Dutch: Commissarissen-generaal over Nederlandsch-Indië as they called themselves [1]) was a commission instituted by the Dutch king William I of the Netherlands in 1815 to implement the provisions of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 and take over the government of the Dutch Indies from the British lieutenant-governor of Java, John Fendall.