The film presents a narrative from Salim, a teacher in Indonesia, highlighting the country's transition from being ruled by the Dutch to achieving independence. It depicts the challenges faced by ...

Each of the objects tell their own story, including dozens of coins and precious jewels that were taken when the Royal Netherlands East Indies army defeated Balinese forces in Lombok in 1894 and ...

This lecture guides the audience to the time when colonization started to reach the shores of the East Indian archipelago when the Europeans, most notably the Iberians and the Dutch sailed there in ...

A still from "Mother Dao, the Turtlelike," a compilation of clips from documentaries and propaganda films shot by Dutch cameramen between 1912 and 1932, when Indonesia was a colony of the Netherlands.

From the 18th to the mid-20th century, Surabaya was the biggest city in what was then the Dutch East Indies, a competitor to other major Asian trading posts of the time. The proof is in these old ...

Not since their debut in 1938 has the archipelago, then known as the Dutch East Indies, appeared at a World Cup but, with the finals growing to 48 nations in 2036, efforts to return have quickly ...

The coin is a copper 1754 Dutch East Indies 1 duit, pre-dating colonisation in the state by almost 50 years (1803). It's one of five coins from the 1700s Mr Crawford has found, but is by far the ...

WWII veteran 1st Lt. (Ret.) John Fisher Lammey shares stories from his time serving in the 13th Air Force, Army Air Corps in the Dutch East Indies.

The Dutch ship incident comes as tensions rise in the East China Sea. Japan protested on Friday after four Chinese ships, presumably armed, sailed near disputed islands controlled by Japan in the ...