THE German invasion of Holland and the flight of Queen Wilhelmina's Government have thrown the Dutch East Indies largely on their own devices. Indeed, as these lines are written there are indications ...

To see the real Jakarta, take a wander down the alleyways, in the kampongs,” says coffee shop owner Reza Adhiatma, who was ...

The Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon is believed to be the first European to actually set foot on Australian soil, he landed on the western side of Cape York Peninsula and he charted about 300 km of ...

A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the ...

Interestingly, the first Japanese translation of Max Havelaar came out in February 1942, a month before Japan took over control of the Dutch East Indies. “While that publication was endorsed by the ...

Published: June 9, 2025 4:05pm EDT The Dutch Golden Age, beginning in 1588, is known for the art of Rembrandt, the invention of the microscope, and the spice trade of the Dutch East India Company.

JAKARTA: US$31 trillion - that’s the amount of wealth that Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto claimed the Netherlands had extracted from Indonesia during its colonial rule over the ...

At a time when Western scholars in the 1930s were still using the term Dutch East Indies, a Russian researcher, Alex Huber, dared to use the term Indonesia in his book titled "Indonesia, Socio ...

A growing number of the world’s leading genocide scholars believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, according to an investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC. The paper interviewed ...

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...