scholarly journals The Sea Voyage as a Marriage Snare: Gender in Novels about the Passage between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies (1869–1891)

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-269
Author(s):  
Coen van’t Veer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch East Indies

Private Trade and Elite Privilege. The Trial of Nicolaas Schaghen, Director of Bengal

Itinerario ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela McVay
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Dutch East India Company ◽  
High Court ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
At Home

It is common wisdom among the historians of the Dutch East Indies that everyone in the Dutch East India Company engaged in private trade. That is, ‘everyone’ traded in goods supposedly monopolized by the Company and ‘everyone’ abused his or her position to squeeze graft from the Company's trade. It was, supposedly, to get their hands on the private trade and graft that people joined the Dutch East India Company (VOC: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) in the first place. But back in the Netherlands the VOC's Board of Directors (the Heeren XVII) objected vociferously to private trade, which drained Company profits and shareholder revenue. To appease the Heeren XVII back at home, the various Governors-General and Councillors of the Indies (Raad van Indië), who represented the Heeren XVII in Asia, issued annual placards forbidding private trade while the High Court (Raad van Justitie) carried out infrequent desultory trials for private trade. But these prosecutions were inevitably doomed to failure, so the story goes, because everyone engaged in private trade would ‘cover’ for everyone else.

‘Behoed ons arme volk voor de vulkaan-poëten’

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-422
Author(s):  
Judith Bosnak ◽  
Rick Honings
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Content Type ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Literary Reception

Abstract ‘Save our poor people from the vulcano poets’. The literary reception of the Krakatoa disaster of 1883 in the Netherlands and Indonesi On August 27, 1883, the volcano Krakatau in the Dutch East Indies erupted and collapsed, causing the deaths of tens of thousands, mainly as a result of devastating tsunamis. The Krakatau eruption was one of the first disasters to take place beyond the Dutch boundaries that received so much attention in the Netherlands. Because the Indies were a Dutch colony, a response of the motherland was rather logical. In many places, charity activities were organized to raise money for the victims. This article focuses on the Dutch and Indonesian literary reactions on the Krakatau disaster. For this purpose, two scholars work together: one specialized in Dutch Literary Studies and the other one in Indonesian Languages and Cultures. In the first part of the article several Dutch charity publications are analysed; the second part focuses on Indonesian sources (in Javanese and Malay). How and to what extend did the reactions in the Netherlands and Indonesia differ?

GERARD SCHURMANN IN INTERVIEW

Tempo ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (231) ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Earl Tomson
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
East Indies ◽  
The Us ◽  
Dutch East Indies

Gerard Schurmann was born of Dutch parents in the former Dutch East Indies in 1924, but spent more than 40 years, including the most formative period of his musical life, in England before moving to the US in 1981. Even during his years in the Netherlands as orchestral conductor with the Dutch Radio in his early twenties, he maintained an apartment in London, sometimes commuting to his place of work in Hilversum. His experience was similar to Bernard van Dieren, another Dutch-born composer who lived in England, although not for as many years as Schurmann: Holland has made no particular move to claim either as a Dutch composer. It was in England that Schurmann developed his skills and persona as a musician, after arriving as a teenager in 1941.

Radio as a Tool of Empire. Intercontinental Broadcasting from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s and 1930s

Itinerario ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103
Author(s):  
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Long Range ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Radio Technology ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
A Company ◽  
Dutch Colonial

In the interwar years, the colonial powers of the day instantly saw long-range radio technology as an instrument to strengthen their empires as it enabled broadcasters in the European metropoles to reach audiences in the peripheries via the ether. This article focuses on the Dutch colonial station PHOHI, a company that pioneered global radio broadcasting. The station was founded by a group of influential entrepreneurs in order to strengthen ties between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies by reaching out to colonial expatriates. This case study shows how geopolitical and ideological considerations shaped both the organisation and the content of Dutch intercontinental broadcasting.

scholarly journals 'COME TO HOLLAND': PROMOSI PARIWISATA BELANDA BAGI HINDIA-BELANDA DAN INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Achmad - Sunjayadi
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
World War ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Second World

Relation between Indonesia and The Netherlands, particularly in the tourism sector has been established long time ago. The relation has been built since Indonesia still part of Dutch colony until now. Relation in the tourism sector had disconnected between the beginning of Second World War until the 1950s. This article tries to trace the relation and the contemporary situation of the tourism sector in Netherland. The discussion focuses on the Netherlands as a tourism destination for the Dutch East Indies’ verlofgangers (those who furlough) and for Indonesian tourists. The question is how Netherlands promote their country as tourist destination and the reason why they promote their country to Dutch East Indies and Indonesian tourists. The data sources for this article are from Dutch’s newspapers and magazines during the colonial period, archives of tourism agencies in the Netherlands as well as Dutch contemporary newspapers,.Keywords: The Netherlands, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, tourism, promotionAbstrakHubungan antara Indonesia dengan Belanda dalam sektor kepariwisataan sudah terjalin lama. Hubungan tersebut terjalin sejak Indonesia masih Hindia-Belanda dan berada di bawah kepemimpinan Belanda hingga Indonesia merdeka. Hubungan di sektor kepariwisataan itu sempat terputus pada masa awal Perang Dunia II hingga tahun 1950-an. Artikel ini membahas jejak hubungan dan situasi kontemporer sektor kepariwisataan di kedua negara. Bahasan dititikberatkan pada Belanda sebagai negara tujuan wisata bagi penduduk Hindia Belanda yang ketika itu disebut verlofgangers (orang yang mengambil cuti) dan wisatawan Indonesia pada saat ini. Pertanyaan yang akan dijawab pada studi ini adalah bagaimana Belanda mempromosikan negerinya serta alasan di balik promosi itu. Sumber yang digunakan adalah arsip surat kabar dan majalah pada periode tersebut, arsip dari lembaga pariwisata di Belanda. serta surat kabar kontemporer terbitan Belanda.Kata kunci: Belanda, Indonesia, Hindia-Belanda, kepariwisataan, promosi

Eugenics in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Pols
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Dutch Population ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Future Population

Eugenics has never held broad appeal in the Netherlands and is taken up far more enthusiastically in the Dutch East Indies. This article aims to investigate the characteristics of the racial and ethnic groups that inhabited the Indonesian archipelago, acclimatization, the consequences of crossbreeding, and the effects of rapid modernization. It discusses percieved threats to the quality of the Dutch population. It concerns the participation of eugenicists in public health discussions that focuses on the quality of the future population of the Netherlands. Tensions between racial and ethnic groups provide the main context for a growing interest in eugenics in the Dutch East Indies. This article discusses the main reason for the lack of success of the rather moderate eugenics movement in the Netherlands as related to the pillarization of Dutch society.

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