Colonial troops fire on Mariënburg workers

After the August ambush, Dutch forces opened a major campaign against Mataram. Dutch accounts cast the operation as restoring order, while it advanced colonial control over Lombok and led to severe...

The ruler of Mataram surrendered after Dutch attacks. Dutch forces seized gold, manuscripts, weapons, and ceremonial objects. The “Lombok treasure” later entered Dutch museums as war booty, showing...

Wilhelmina described a Dutch “moral calling” toward the East Indies. Welfare language promised education and reform but preserved Dutch sovereignty and paternalism. Military campaigns continued to...

Indian and Javanese contract workers stopped work over low pay and labor conditions at the Netherlands Trading Society estate. Their protest challenged a labor regime that replaced slavery with...

After weeks of protest, workers confronted estate management and director James Mavor was killed. Colonial records framed the event as disorder; it arose in a plantation labor system dependent on...

Colonial forces under G.C.E. van Daalen attacked a fortified Alas village whose inhabitants had refused Dutch annexation. The massacre of residents, including women and children, demonstrates how...

Dutch forces landed at Sanur as part of an expedition against the kingdoms of Badung and Tabanan. The campaign followed disputes over colonial demands and advanced direct Dutch control; Balinese...

The rulers and residents of Badung marched from the palace in a final act of resistance and were shot by Dutch forces. The event, remembered as the puputan, should not be reduced to a story of...

Dewa Agung Jambe and followers resisted Dutch troops at Klungkung. The ruler and many members of the court were killed; the Dutch then established direct colonial authority. The event marked conquest,...

Javanese students and young professionals formed Budi Utomo, an organization that promoted education and social advancement. Often treated as a marker of national awakening, it arose under...