Indonesia

Includes Borneo

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

• BACSA publication Java: British and Empire Graves (1743-1975) by Justin Corfield, 1999. MIs including World War II.
188pp, 70 illustrations and plans ISBN 0 907799 61 2. Available at the British Library.

For details including purchase, see BACSA Books - select Cemetery Record Books.

BACSA have put indexes to the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. 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 British 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 (note the BL appears to be missing Volume 3), and Volume 4 is also included, together with the first three volumes, in the DVD mentioned below (Dutch language)

Volumes 1-3 of the book by Bloys van Treslong Prins are available on a FamilySearch microfilm, catalogue entry (Ordering microfilms).

• British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935) by Alan Harfield 1984 is available at the British Library. 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.
• Dutch Indies Genealogical Association sells publications, including a DVD of records from multiple sources including all four volumes of the book by Bloys van Treslong Prins, refer above. Both the DVD and webpage are in Dutch. English translation of the webpage, using Google Translate.

External links

• 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
• Treasures from the London Library Describes the book The Planter’s Manual, an English, Dutch, Malay and Keh Chinese vocabulary by G Fraser Melbourn published Deli Sumatra 1894. Also available at the British Library. The author was a tobacco planter.
• 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.
• [Researching in] the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI) by Matthew Minarchek, Department of History, Cornell University, May 26, 2015. dissertationreviews.org

Historical books online

• 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. 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.

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Policy and Administration of the Dutch in Java by Clive Day 1904 2nd book file 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
• 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 Hathi Trust Digital Library
• Through the Malay Archipelago by Emily Richings 1909 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