Dutch East Indies (idn)

Dutch East Indies

Dutch East Indies ranks 3,004th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ottoman Syria, Plauen, and Albertville. Memorable people born in Dutch East Indies include Ki Hajar Dewantara, Wage Rudolf Supratman, and Martha Christina Tiahahu. Dutch East Indies has been the birth place of many politicians, and musicians. Dutch East Indies is located in Indonesia.

The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies, was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945. Following the Indonesian War of Independence, Indonesia and the Netherlands made peace in 1949. In the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, the Dutch ceded the governorate of Dutch Malacca to Britain, leading to its eventual incorporation into Malacca (state) of modern Malaysia. Read more on Wikipedia