Indonesia

Includes southern Borneo. (For the former British North Borneo, see Malaysia).

Indonesia was formerly known as the Dutch East Indies, and was generally under Dutch control.

However the East India Company had some involvement as Bencoolen on the southside of the island of Sumatra, was occupied by the East India Company from 1685 to 1825, when it was exchanged with the Dutch for Malacca which was more strategically useful.

In 1811, the island of Java was captured by the Madras Army of the East india Company, see Java Expedition and Sir Stamford Raffles was appointed as the island's Governor. In 1814, Java was returned to the Dutch under the terms of the Treaty of Paris, but the British retained at least some control until 1816.

Also see

• Bencoolen
• Dutch
• Dutch Indies Genealogical Association

FIBIS resources

• FIBIS Journal Number 30 (Autumn 2013), page 43 includes some correspondence about records of the Dutch cemeteries in Java

Records

• See General Register Office for general sources which may be relevant.
• See Dutch for sources or aids which may be relevant.
• See Bencoolen.
• Bogor, Indonesia : the cemetery in the Botanical Gardens by Justin Corfield 1999 36 p. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01009894001 and also Mss Eur F370. Distributed by BACSA

Pangkalpinang : a guide to cemeteries : Bangka Island, South Sumatra by Justin Corfield 1999. 48 p. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01009894005, and also Mss Eur F370. 48p. Distributed by BACSA

• BACSA publication Java: British and Empire Graves (1743-1975) by Justin Corfield, 1999. MIs including World War II.
188pp, 70 illustrations and plans Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008880088 and also Mss Eur F370.

For details including purchase, see BACSA- See also.

BACSA have put indexes to the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to search and browse, see the BACSA Fibiwiki page. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.

Justin Corfield’s book incorporates some of, perhaps the English language burial entries of, three of the four volumes of the book by P.C. Bloys van Treslong Prins, Genealogische en heraldische gedenkwaardigheden betreffende Europeanen op Java, [Genealogical and heraldic memorabilia relating to Europeans in Java] published 1934-1939, but not Volume 4, published in Batavia in 1939 and not widely available due to WW2. Volume 4 appears to be available at the British Library, UIN: BLL01002992238 (note the BL appears to be missing Volume 3), and Volume 4 is also included, together with the first three volumes, in the USB stick mentioned below from IGV (Dutch language). Note that the FamilySearch catalogue, see following, states that the information has been "transcribed from gravestones", but it appears additional sources have been included.

• The FamilySearch catalogue of microfilms/digitised microfilms includes the following
  • "Genealogische en heraldische gedenkwaardigheden betreffende Europeanen op Java" (stated to be "Genealogical and heraldic information transcribed from gravestones in European cemeteries in Java") catalogue entry Volumes 1-3 of the book by P. C. Bloys van Treslong Prins, mentioned above. Note these have been digitised and are currently (2021/04/06) available to view on your home computer, but you must be signed in to FamilySearch. The three volumes are the first three items on the film. Mainly Dutch language, although if the cemetery inscriptions were originally in English, the transcriptions also are in English. Each volume contains an index of names which appears at the beginning of each filmed volume (although from the page numbering probably comes from the back of the book). Volume 1 1934. Volume 2 (1936) commences image no. 258, and Volume 3 (1938) commences image 516, ending image 773. There are generally two printed pages per image. The FamilySearch microfilm does not include Volume 4 (1939) which is however available at the British Library, or on a USB stick to buy from IGV, see below. The impression (subject to language difficulties) is that each additional volume contains new information which has become available since the previous edition.
  • "Extracts from St. Andrew's Outlook, quarterly messenger of the Presbyterian Churches in Malaya, Sumatra, Burma and Siam : marriages and deaths, March 1914 - July 1951" catalogue entry film 87992.

See the Fibiwiki page FamilySearch Centres for information about microfilms and digitized microfilms.

There are also some records for Indonesia in the "World Miscellaneous" records on FamilySearch. The source of these records is unknown.

• For online editions of the publication The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c, and similar publications, which may contain birth, marriage and death notices, see the Fibiwiki page China.
• The London and China Express, published in London, with target readership those outside the Indian Empire, including Java, is available on Findmypast, category "Newspapers & periodicals"/"British newspapers", with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites. The date range is from November 25, 1858 to July 2, 1931. For more details see Newspapers and journals online.
• British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935) by Alan Harfield 1984 is available at the British Library, UIN: BLL01012321679 and UIN: BLL01012672115 . History of British and Indian Armies in Sumatra, Java, Sarawak, Malaya and Singapore from 1685-1935. Includes names of officers and men buried in these areas. Also includes name lists of persons in some military units which served in these areas.
• For webpages which follow which are not available in English, you can obtain a computer produced translation of the webpage using Google Translate, (by entering the URL of the webpage, or copying and pasting text), or your browser (such as Chrome) may have an automatic facility.
• Indische Genealogische Vereniging IGV or Dutch Indies Genealogical Association sells publications, including a USB stick of records from multiple sources including all four volumes of the book by Bloys van Treslong Prins, refer above. Note both the USB stick and the webpage describing the USB stick, are in Dutch. If the webpage does not display the contents of the USB stick, click on Beschrijving.

Previously the content of the USB stick just described was available on two separate USB sticks which could be bought separately, but this option no longer seems to applies. Note that there is a 50% discount for IGV members, so it would be cheaper to become a digital IGV member if you want to purchase the USB stick.

IGV Guide: https://igv.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Voorlopige-zoekwijzer-ten-behoeve-van-genealogisch-onderzoek-naar-Europeanen.pdf

"Voorlopige zoekwijzer ten behoeve van genealogisch onderzoek naar Europeanen (Nederlanders) in Nederlandsch-Indië (Zuid- en Zuid-Oost-Azië)" (versie: april 2018)]

Google Translate English title "Provisional search guide for genealogical research to Europeans (Dutch) in the Dutch East Indies (South and South East Asia)" (version: April 2018). To obtain a translation of the contents copy and paste the the URL in Google Translate, alternatively copy and paste the text.

The "Provisional search guide" refers to a published guide in the Dutch language Asal Oesoel, published by Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie en Familiegeschiedenis [CBG] [Central Bureau for Genealogy and Family History], available through the IGV online shop, with a 50% discount for IGV members.

• Search online newspapers and books on the free Dutch language website Delpher, developed by the KB (National Library), "Ruim 130 miljoen pagina's uit Nederlandse kranten, boeken en tijdschriften" ["More than 130 million pages from Dutch newspapers, books and magazines"]. Wat zit er in Delpher? (Dutch language) advises there are newspapers from Nederlands-Indië, with a link to Krantenoverzicht which then links to a pdf, List of newspapers (Dutch language). The following titles were noted (but there may be others) with first and last dates, but no details of the extent of the holding:

Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië 2-7-1900 to 22-12-1957

Java government gazette 29-2-1812 to 10-8-1816. In English and Dutch. (The British were in control during this period.)

Java-bode : nieuws, handels- en advertentieblad voor Nederlandsch-Indie 5-1-1853 to 30-11-1957

Javasche courant 3-1-1828 to 29-12-1847

Nederlandsch-Indisch handelsblad 16-12-1828 to 18-6-1833.

• The National Archives of Singapore has in its collection, viewable in Singapore, a microfilm of records from "Church of England, Diocese of Singapore" catalogued as "Marriage Register (Marriages Solemnized in Java) from 05.07.1911 to 14.11.1946 and Baptism/ Confirmation Register from 21.04.1912 - 09.12.1917" Microfilm Number: NA 2349, catalogue entry. Within this catalogue entry, click on the source "Church of England, Diocese of Singapore" for more catalogue entries for Java BMD records from the same source, mainly from the 1930s, including some specified Sourabaya/Sourbaya.

External links

• All Saints Anglican Church, Jakarta, Indonesia. The present church building opened in 1831. The church became the Java Chaplaincy of the Diocese of Singapore in 1910, which covered a vast area.

Indonesia is currently one of the Deaneries of the Anglican Diocese of Singapore.

• The factory of the English East India company at Bantam, 1602-1682 by David Kenneth Bassett 1955 Phd Thesis School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). EThOS (British Library)
• The Dutch East India Company and the Straits of Malacca, 1700-1784 : trade and politics in the eighteenth century by Dianne Lewis 1970 PhD Thesis Australian National University. Link to a download ANU.

"British trade to Southeast Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries revisited" by Dianne Lewis. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 11, 1 (June 2009): 49-59 nzasia.org.nz

• "The British capture of Java, 1811" British Library Asian and African studies blog 11 August 2014.

"Raffles and the British Invasion of Java" "Footnotes and Sidelights from the Story of the British Interregnum in Java". The British, (being the East India Company in India) ruled Java to 1816.

"A Highlanders' Grave at Probolinggo East Java" by E. Edwards McKinnon. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research Volume 74, Spring 1996 pp. 52-56. jstor.org. Officers of the 78th Highlanders were killed in May 1813 trying to enforce a new 'land distribution scheme' with which many of the locals did not agree. Read online for free on the website Jstor.org, subject to registration with Jstor.org, and restrictions apply. For more details about Jstor, and the restrictions, see the page Miscellaneous tips. Alternatively you may be able to log in with a Library card.

• "The Merchant Fleet of Java (1820-1850). A Preliminary Survey" by F.J.A. Broeze Archipel Année 1979 [No.] 18 pp. 251-269 persee.fr
• Acheh (Wikipedia)is a special region of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra . Under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 the British ceded their colonial possessions on Sumatra to the Dutch. In the treaty, the British described Aceh as one of their possessions, although they had no actual control over the Sultanate
• Digital Atlas of Indonesian History:Index by place name includes Pedir (Pedie, Padir), a trading port in Acheh, visited by ships of the East India Company. indonesianhistory.info, now archived.
• [Researching in] the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI) by Matthew Minarchek, Department of History, Cornell University, May 26, 2015. dissertationreviews.org
• Has Somerset Maugham promoted Malaysia more than Shahrukh Khan? by Oscar the Grouch. The short stories by W. Somerset Maugham set in Malaysia and Borneo, written during the 1920s and 1930s, were typically concerned with the lives of the British imperial colonist. Includes details of a murder in 1911 in Malaya on which one of the stories is thought to be based.
  • A list of the short stories by W. Somerset Maugham set in Malaysia and Borneo www.maleisie.be, now an archived webpage.

See Historical books online, below.

• The website Malayan Volunteers Group malayanvolunteersgroup.org.uk includes a category Sumatra. Mainly 1930s and WW2 period.

Maps

• A map of the East-Indies and the adjacent countries, with the settlements, factories and territories, explaning [sic] what belongs to England, Spain, France, Holland, Denmark, Portugal etc. with many remarks not extant in any other map c1717- 1720 by Herman Moll, geographer. University of Texas. Also available Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection at the Boston Public Library and National Library of Australia. catalogue description from NLA.

Note: this map contains insets including A plan of the city of Batavia (bottom corner, towards the left) and A plan of the city of Bantam (top left hand corner) both of which can be enlarged considerably.

Historical books online

• A courante of newes from the East India. A true relation of the taking of the ilands of Lantore and Polaroone in the parts of Bande in the East Indies by the Hollanders, which ilands had yeelded themselues subiect vnto the King of England. Written to the East India Company in England from their factors there 1622. A transcription. lib.umich.edu
• The Civil Wars of Bantam, Or, An Impartial Relation of All the Battels, Sieges and Other Remarkable Transactions, Revolutions and Accidents that Happened in the Late Civil Wars Between that King and His Eldest Son ...: Giving a Particular Account of the ... Siege and Taking of the City of Bantam and the English Factory There by the Young King, with the Help ... of the Dutch : in Several Letters from a Gentleman Residing for the East-India-Company at Bantam to a Merchant in London 1683 Google Books.
• The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope edited and annotated by Captain Padfield Oliver 1891. Volume I, Volume II. Printed for the Hakluyt Society. Archive.org. The narrative commences 1689.
• "The Management of the Dutch in India", page 309 An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org.
• A voyage to and from the island of Borneo, in the East Indies : with a description of the said island … Also a description of the islands of Canary, Cape Verd, Java, Madura; of the streights of Bally, the Cape of Good Hope, the Hottentots, the island of St. Helena, Ascension etc by Captain Daniel Beeckman 1718. The first chapter states he was in the service of the East India Company. He sailed from England October 1713. South East Asia Visions Cornell University Library. Note, may be very slow to open. Catalogue entry .
• A Voyage to the East Indies in 1747 and 1748. Containing an Account of the Islands of St. Helena and Java. Of the City of Batavia. Of the Government and Political Conduct of the Dutch. Of the Empire of China, with a Particular Description of Canton ... 1762 Google Books. Archive.org version. The Preface states the author was an officer in the service of the East India Company.
• The History of Sumatra: containing an account of the government, laws, customs and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island ‬by William Marsden. Third edition with additions 1811 Google Books. The map has not been filmed. Also available in an Archive.org version with Map. First published 1783. The 2nd edition describes the author "late Secretary to the President and Council of Fort Marlborough".
• Alexander Dalrymple 1737-1808 page 217 ‪The General Biographical Dictionary: Volume 11 by Alexander Chalmers 1813. Appointed a writer 1752 in Madras. Obtained a grant of the island of Balambangan (an island off North Borneo, now part of the Malaysian state of Sabah), controlled by the Sultan of Sulu (Sooloo) for the East India Company in 1763. Hydrographer.

Alexander Dalrymple’s Treaties with Sulu in Malay and Tausug 05 June 2014 British Library Asian and African studies blog.

• The Chinaman Abroad, or, A desultory account of the Malayan Archipelago, particularly of Java by Ong-Tae-Hae [Wang-ta-hai] 1849 Archive.org. Translation of a 1791 Chinese account.

1850 edition National Library of Australia, states translator is W H Medhurst.

• Memoir of the Conquest of Java: With the Subsequent Operations of the British Forces, in the Oriental Archipelago. To which is Subjoined a Statistical and Historical Sketch of Java… with an Account of Its Dependencies by Major William Thorn, late Deputy Quarter-Master- General to the Forces serving in Java. 1815 Google Books.
• The History of Java by Thomas Stamford Raffles 1817 Archive.org. Volume I with Map of Java, Volume II. The Illustrations were later reprinted: Antiquarian, Architectural and Landscape Illustrations of the History of Java by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles 1844 Google Books. Hathi Trust edition, where the pages are able to be rotated.
• Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands by Thomas Horfield MD 1824 Archive.org. With coloured plates.

Images from the book New York Public Library Digital Collection.

• Trade and Travel in the Far East; Or, Recollections of Twenty-one Years Passed in Java, Singapore, Australia, and China by G.F. Davidson (1846). Google Books. The author arrived in Java in October 1823 and lived there until 1826.
• The Eastern Seas, or Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832, 33, 34 ... also an account of the present state of Singapore, etc by George Windsor Earl 1837 Google Books
• Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly : commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood, R.N., in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the years 1842-1846 : together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java by J Beete Jukes, Naturalist to the Expedition. 1847. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org
• De Zieke Reiziger: Or, Rambles in Java and the Straits. in 1852 [The Invalid Traveller] by A Bengal Civilian [Charles Walter Kinloch victorianresearch.org] 1853 Google Books.
• Java, or How to Manage a Colony. Showing a practical solution to the questions now affecting British India by J W B Money 1861 Archive.org. Volume I, Volume II
• Jottings of an invalid in search of health, comprising a run through British India and a visit to Singapore and Java : a series of letters reprinted from the "Times of India" by Tom Cringle. [Author: William Walker, see Preface] 1865. Archive.org, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Also available in the British Library Digital Collection.
• Navigation
  • The China Sea Directory by the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London.
    • The China Sea Directory Volume I. Containing directions for the approaches to the China Sea and to Singapore, by the straits of Sunda, Banka, Gaspar, Carimata, Rhio, Varella, Durian, and Singapore by J. W. Reed , R N and J. W. King, R N. 1867 Google Books. 3rd edition 1886 Archive.org.
    • The China Sea Directory Volume II. Containing directions for the navigation of the China Sea, between Singapore and Hong Kong by J. W. Reed , R N and J. W. King, R N. 1868. British Library Digital Collection.
  • A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org
  • Malacca Strait Pilot : comprising strait and its northern approaches, Singapore Strait, and the West Coast of Sumatra 1946 Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Possibly may be sample pages only.
• "Extracts from a Report on the Volcanic Eruption in Sunda Strait by Commander the Honourable F. C. P. Vereker, H.M.S. 'Magpie,' Dated Singapore, October 22, 1883" followed by "Report from H.B.M. Consul at Batavia, Inclosing Extract Relating to the Volcanic Outbursts in the Sunda Strait, from the Logbook of the Steam-Ship Governor-General Loudon" from Page 198 onwards Proceedings of the Royal Society of London from November 15 1883 to April 24, 1884, Volume 36, published 1884 Archive.org.
• Two Years in the Jungle : the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo by William T Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist, US National Museum 1885 Archive.org.
• Some Notes on Java and its Administration by the Dutch by Henry Scott Boys, late Bengal Civil Service 1892 Archive.org
• A Visit to Java : with an Account of the Founding of Singapore by William Basil Worsfold 1893 Archive.org
• The Planter’s Manual, an English, Dutch, Malay and Keh Chinese vocabulary by G Fraser Melbourn published Deli Sumatra 1894. Google Books

"Treasures from the London Library" historytoday.com, now an archived webpage. Article about one particular copy of the book. The author was a tobacco planter.

• With the Dutch in the East. An outline of the military operations in Lombock, 1894, giving also a popular account of the native characteristics,… by Capt W Cool (Dutch Engineer). Translated from the Dutch by E J Taylor 1897 Archive.org
• From Jungle to Java : The trivial impressions of a short excursion to Netherlands India by Arthur Louis Keyser [1897] Archive.org
• Java, the Garden of the East by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore 1897 Archive.org.
• A Padre in Partibus: being notes and impressions of a brief holiday tour through Java, the Eastern Archipelago and Siam ... Reprinted from the “Singapore Free Press.” by G. M. Reith, (George Murray), 1897. Cornell University Library- Southeast Asia Visions. Also available in the British Library Digital Collection
• Facts and Fancies about Java by Augusta de Wit 1900 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Archive.org
• European Settlements in the Far East; China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, etc by DWS [catalogued as D Warres Smith] 1900 Archive.org. The author appears to have been the publisher of/associated with the annual publication Directory and Chronicle for China, Japan…, see further below for online editions.
• Jennings' Guide to Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Johore, Deli, Bangkok, etc 1900 Archive.org. There are limited references to Batavia.
• On cane sugar and the process of its manufacture in Java by H. C. Prinsen Geerligs, [Hendrik Coenraad] 1902 Archive.org
• The Policy and Administration of the Dutch in Java by Clive Day 1904. 2nd book file Archive.org
• Java page 160 The Far Eastern Tropics, Studies in the Administration of Tropical Dependencies: Hong Kong, British North Borneo, Sarawak, Burma, the Federated Malay States, the Straits Settlements, French Indo-China, Java, the Phillipine Islands by Alleyne Ireland 1905 Archive.org.
• My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands by Herbert Wright 1908 Archive.org Ceylon, Malaya, Java, Sumatra
• Java: Past & Present, a description of the most beautiful country in the world, its ancient history, people, antiquities, and products by Donald Maclaine Campbell, late British-Vice Consul, 1915 Volume I, Volume II with a Geological and Volcanos map Archive.org
• The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c. For a range of editions to 1922, see China.
• The London and China Telegraph. Published weekly in London. Covers China, Hong Kong, Japan, Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang), Batavia and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see China.
• Restricted access, probably available to those in North America and some other countries: Twentieth Century Impressions of Netherlands India: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources by Arnold Wright 1908 HathiTrust Digital Library. Google Books edition [restricted]
• Through the Malay Archipelago by Emily Richings 1909 Archive.org
• Isles of the East : an Illustrated Guide : Australia, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra W Lorck Editor –in- Chief. Royal Packet Steam Navigation Company (KPM) 1912 Archive.org.
• Java : Information for Travellers : Trips in the Isle of Java… Batavia: Official Tourist Bureau, 1913. South East Asia Visions, Cornell University.
  • Map of Java

Come to Java: Information for Travellers, with two maps. Trips in the isle of Java… Official Tourist Bureau 1920. South East Asia Visions, Cornell University.

• Map of Java
• Map of Netherlands East Indies. May be very slow to open.

• Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands by Sir Malcolm Watson 1915 Archive.org. There is a chapter on Sumatra relating to malaria.
• Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. During WW1 Julius Lauterbach was navigator on the German SMS Emden and subsequently was a prisoner in Singapore at Tangling prison camp page 95, and helped ferment dissatisfaction which led to the 1915 Singapore Mutiny, during which he escaped and fled, initially to Sumatra.
• Military Report on the Netherlands’ Possessions in the East Indies Prepared by the General Staff, War Office 1919. Website of the Australian Army, located under Our Heritage/ History/Primary Materials/1919 to 1938 - Between the Wars/Documents. This appears to be an internal British Army document which is marked Confidential. Direct link, now archived.
• The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918 by Kees van Dijk 2007. Open Access oapen.org.
• A Manual of Netherlands India (Dutch East Indies) by Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO 1920. Archive.org
• Java and Madura HMSO 1920. Number 82 in a series of more than 160 studies prepared by the British Foreign Office as background information for British delegates at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. World Digital Library, Library of Congress.
• Sumatra HMSO 1920. Number 83 in a series of more than 160 studies prepared by the British Foreign Office as background information for British delegates at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference World Digital Library, Library of Congress.
• Dutch Borneo HMSO 1920. Number 84 in a series of more than 160 studies prepared by the British Foreign Office as background information for British delegates at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference World Digital Library, Library of Congress.
• Where the strange trails go down; Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits settlements, Malay states, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by E Alexander Powell 1921 Archive.org
• The Ports of the Dutch Indies by Wouter Cool 1921 Archive.org
• Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook by John A Fowler [USA] Trade Commissioner 1923 Archive.org
• Series: Economic and Social History of the World War : Dutch Series, published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The Netherlands and the World War. Studies in the War History of a Neutral. Volume III The Effect of the War Upon the Colonies by Professor J H Carpentier Alting and W De Cock Buning 1928 Archive.org. HathiTrust Digital Library with darker print. Includes the Netherlands East Indies.
• In Java : and the neighboring islands of the Dutch East Indies by John Charles Van Dyke 1929. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". Archive.org mirror version.
• The Agricultural Zoology of the Malay Archipelago : the animals injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture and forestry in the Malay Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines by Karel Willem Dammerman 1929. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia. Probably may be sample pages only. Searchable, but not viewable Google Books
• The Coins of the Dutch East Indies: an Introduction to the study of the series by Sir John Bucknill 1931 Archive.org, Anna Digital Library Collection.
• From Siam to Suez by James Saxon Childers 1932 Archive.org. The author travelled to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and India.
• Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatra, Java and Bali by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only, and could be very few. Searchable, but not viewable, on HathiTrust Digital Library and Google Books.About the author shakariconnection.com
• Belle of Bali being impressions of a pleasure cruise to the Dutch East Indies via Cochin, Colombo, Penang, and Singapore by Ardaser Sorabjee N. Wadia 1936. Link to a pdf download Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
• Netherlands India : a study of plural economy by J S Furnivall, (John Sydenham), late Indian Civil Service Burma. 1939 reprinted 1967. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Isles of Spice by Frank Clune 1942. Archive.org Lending Library. A trip in 1939.
• French View of the Netherlands Indies by G.H. Bousquet ; translated from the French by Philip E. Lilienthal 1940. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
• Netherlands Overseas Territories published by The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Information Department Papers No. 28. July 1941. Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections (Collection Caribbean Sources). Mainly about Indonesia.
• A Pocket Guide to the Netherlands East Indies by United States Army Service Forces, Special Service Division. 1943 Archive.org. Select one page option if viewing online. Transcribed version history.navy.mil/research/library.
• Netherlands East Indies by Naval Intelligence Division 1944. Volume 1, Volume 2 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
• Java Revisited by John Fabricius, (catalogued Fabricus) translated from the Dutch by M S Stephens 1947. Archive.org. The author was working in Java 1945-1946 as a war correspondent.
• Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). These volumes give a detailed account of the operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. The three volumes relating to Indonesia have been translated into English, funded by the Corts Foundation. "Senshi Sōsho" a page from The Corts Foundation, archived. (The Corts Foundation, a Dutch non profit organisation, following the 3rd publication has decided to conclude the activities as an autonomous foundation and is transferring its activities to the new ‘Philippus Corts Fonds’, now part of 'The Learned Society /KITLV'. Leiden)

Volume 3 of the series: The invasion of the Dutch East Indies edited and translated by Willem Remmelink 2015. The campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago. Open Access oapen.org.

Volume 26 of the series: The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal edited and translated by Willem Remmelink 2018. Describes the Japanese Navy’s role in the campaign to gain control over the Indonesian archipelago. It includes the first complete Japanese analysis of the Battle of the Java Sea, a much-debated battle that ended disastrously for the Allies and opened the way to Java for the Japanese. Open Access oapen.org.

Volume 34 of the series: The Invasion of the South: Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Northern and Central Sumatra edited and translated by Willem Remmelink 2021. Open Access oapen.org.

• Four years till tomorrow : despair and hope in wartime Dutch East Indies : a collection of 26 eye witness stories edited by Sheri G Tromp 1999 Archive.org Lending Library.
• Pepper, Rice, and Elephants : a Southeast Asian journey from Celebes to Siam by Ruth Masters Rickover 1975 Archive.org Lending Library
• Empire's End : a history of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong by John Keay 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Aceh Books Collection [online] using filter "download provided". Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections. Mainly Dutch language titles, but some English titles. There are also other Collections available which may contain relevant titles.

Fiction

• The Hidden Force: a Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 1921 Archive.org. A novel. Originally written 1900.
• The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham Volume I Archive.org Lending Library. Volume II, Volume III. Archive.org. The Volume III Preface indicates some of the stories are set in Malaya "written long before the Second World War"; there may be Borneo stories in any volume. (See External links, above.) Other Short Stories editions mainly from the Archive.org Lending Library. Far Eastern Tales Archive.org Lending Library. The short stories appear to have been written mainly in the 1920s-1930s.
• Insulinde : selected translations from Dutch writers of three centuries on the Indonesian archipelago edited by Cornelia Niekus Moore 1978. Archive.org Lending Library. Also includes a few factual accounts.