The Dutch East Indies (or Netherlands East Indies ) was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II.

The US froze Japanese assets, an example followed by Britain and the Dutch East Indies.

Union Films was a film production company located in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia).

The Cultivation System (), or less accurately the Culture System, was a Dutch government policy in the mid nineteenth century for its Dutch East Indies colony (now Indonesia).

In 1830, a new governor general, Johannes van den Bosch, was appointed to increase the exploitation of the Dutch East Indies' resources.

Due to its natural harbour with relatively deep and well sheltered water, the Dutch East Indies government decided to open Sabang as a quay.

The Dutch East Indies, which later formed modern day Indonesia, was one of the most valuable European colonies in the world and the most important one for the Netherlands.

As a plantation colony, Suriname was still heavily dependent on manual labour, and to make up for the shortfall, the Dutch brought in contract labourers from the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) and India (through an arrangement with the British).

The university was established on January 8, 1842 by King William II of the Netherlands as a Royal Academy, with the main purpose of training civil servants for the Dutch East Indies.

On 10 October 1770, she limped into port in Batavia (now named Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies for more substantial repairs, her crew sworn to secrecy about the lands they had visited.

On 17 September 1901, in a formal speech to parliament, the newly crowned Queen Wilhelmina formally articulated the new policy that the Dutch Government had a moral obligation to the native people of the Dutch East Indies that could be summarised in the 'Three Policies' of Irrigation, Transmigration and Education.

Journalist Pieter Brooshooft (1845 1921), wrote about the moral duty of the Dutch to provide more for the peoples of the Indies.

The island is situated in the Atlantic Ocean, east of the other West Indies Islands.

In 1602 the Dutch established the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and became the dominant European power.

Distribution These fishes are distributed in tropical America, tropical Africa, southeastern and eastern Asia, East Indies, and Australia.

Amsterdam's merchants had the largest share in both the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company.

With the East India Company, England also competed with the Dutch and French in the East.

See also Cultivation System Dutch East Indies Dutch Empire History of Indonesia Indonesian National Revolution References General references and further reading Robert Cribb, 'Development policy in the early 20th century', in Jan Paul Dirkse, Frans Hüsken and Mario Rutten, eds, Development and social welfare Indonesia s experiences under the New Order (Leiden Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal , Land en Volkenkunde, 1993), pp.

Dutch and English interests used this new information, leading to their commercial expansion, including the foundation of the English East India Company in 1600, and the Dutch East India Company in 1602.

East Indies In Colonial times the Clipper Ship Tea Route from China to England was the longest trade route in the world.

The economic boom, precipitated by trade between the East Indies and China via the port of Batavia, increased Chinese immigration to Java.

Great Britain received parts of the West Indies at the expense of the Netherlands and Spain and kept the former Dutch colonies of Ceylon and the Cape Colony as well as Malta and Heligoland.

By 1940 the island had an oil refinery with four petroleum loading piers, and was one of the five largest petroleum processing centers in the East Indies.

IGMENA is the Internet Governance programme in the Middle East and North Africa of the Dutch international development organization Hivos.

1958 to 1962 Federal Government of the West Indies.

Disputes, however, broke out over trade with the West Indies.

Several dialects of Dutch Low Saxon ( Nederlands Nedersaksisch in Dutch) are spoken in much of the north east of the country and are recognised as regional languages according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

A Dutch Cure for the Dutch Disease

In 1602, the Amsterdam office of the Dutch East India Company became the world's first stock exchange by trading in its own shares.

Higher education is provided by the University of the West Indies.

The Dutch army was used throughout the Dutch Empire.

The Midwestern United States, some parts of Europe, some small areas of Southwest Asia, and a few spots in the East Indies have the highest percentages of immigrant population recorded by the UN Census 2005.

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The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies.

Similar situations occurred throughout almost the entire American continent and the West Indies.

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From the beginning of the 17th century the Dutch cannibalized the Portuguese Empire in the East and, with the immense wealth gained, challenged Spanish hegemony at sea.

Documents Officer to the federal Cabinet on the West Indies Federation attaining cabinet status.

Education Sir Burton received an Ll B degree, with Honours, from the University of the West Indies in 1974 and the Legal Education Certificate of the Council of Legal Education of the West Indies in 1976.

The Dutch Retreat

Dutch (oral, reading).

Dutch emancipation policy

The Leeward Antilles (Dutch Benedenwindse Eilanden) are a chain of islands in the Caribbean specifically, the southerly islands of the Lesser Antilles (and, in turn, the Antilles and the West Indies) along the southeastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast of the South American mainland.

Problem drinking affects 15 of the male Dutch population and 3 of Dutch women.

Despite this correspondence between standard Dutch and the Dutch spoken in the Randstad, there are local variations within Holland itself that differ from standard Dutch.