Exploring the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the Sultanate of Banten (capital city pictured) was once a great trading center in Southeast Asia, but was later overshadowed by Batavia and finally annexed by the Dutch East Indies in 1813.

the never-completed Design 1047 battlecruisers were intended to be the first line of defense for the Dutch East Indies.

USS General S. D. Sturgis was the transport ship assigned to deliver officials of the United States, Australia, Canada, Dutch East Indies, China and the Philippines to Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender ceremonies at the end of World War II.

George McTurnan Kahin was expelled by Dutch authorities while conducting research in Indonesia for his dissertation on the country's struggle for independence.

Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the country's first minister of labor.

Dutch governor-general Jan Willem Janssens surrendered both the Cape Colony and the Dutch East Indies in separate incidents during the Napoleonic Wars.

F. Springer's novel Bougainville features a character who slept with Mata Hari on the boat taking them to the Dutch East Indies.

Exploring the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia

1 What region does Dutch East Indies belong to?

2 Where does Dutch East Indies come from?

3 What is the capital of Dutch East Indies?

4 What is Dutch East Indies's current status?

5 The capital of the Dutch East Indies was Batavia, now known as ________, which remains the capital of the Indonesian republic.

6 It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the former ________ that came under the administration of the Netherlands in 1800.

7 This final territorial range would form the territory of the Republic of Indonesia proclaimed in 1945, with the exception of ________ territory, which became part of the Indonesian republic in the 1960s.

8 The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, (Dutch: Nederlands-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia-Belanda) was the ________ that became modern Indonesia following World War II.

9 Thereafter and as a consequence of the subsequent ________, the Netherlands formally recognised Indonesian sovereignty in December 1949.

10 The 1824 Anglo-Dutch Treaty, ceded Dutch control of ________, the Malay Peninsula, and possessions in India to Great Britain in exchange for British settlements in Indonesia, such as Bengkulu in Sumatra.

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