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...pact recognizes Sumatra, Java and little Madura as the Republic of Indonesia, whose degree of independence will be great, but is deliberately left vague. Borneo and the Great East (see map) will be left under Dutch control. Both the Dutch and the Indonesian nationalists agree to work toward a federation which would bring the whole Netherlands East Indies into a future United States of Indonesia, a sort of Dominion under the Dutch Crown. Further negotiations to clarify the pact are expected. Meanwhile, the Indonesians think that events are moving too slowly toward independence, and the Dutch think they are going...
...States of Indonesia, conceived as an equal partner with The Netherlands under the House of Orange, was born in Batavia last week. Dutch and Indonesian representatives initialed a draft agreement providing for a three-way division of The Netherlands East Indies: first, the Indonesian Republic, comprising the islands of Java, Sumatra and Madura; second, Borneo; third, "The Great East," made up of Bali, the Celebes, the Moluccas, Dutch New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands. These three autonomous areas would be linked as equal partners in the United States of Indonesia, and within two years the U.S.I. would be rated...
This was not the stringless independence Java's rebel President, Dr. Soekarno, had sought, but it was close enough to be palatable to most Indonesians. However, extremists attacked Dutch soldiers at Buitenzorg, and the mother country had a few extremists...
...Raffles himself. "[He] saw the [East India] Company ... a part ... of the great divine plan of empire. He never doubted the final Tightness of empire; he merely doubted the Company's interpretation ... of Divinity's intentions. . . . He dreamed of a great British Empire in the Indies, with Java as the center"-and his French and Dutch enemies never gave him a scrap of the trouble that he met with at the hands of his businesslike, unromantic employers in London...
...property, or sank into fatty degeneracy under the stewing sun, Raffles immersed himself in tireless study of his surroundings-establishing a tradition of government research that has made Indonesia one of the best documented areas of the British Empire. Botanist, cartographer, linguist, historian, Raffles tramped the jungles of Sumatra, Java, Batavia-areas wrested from the Dutch by Napoleon and, in turn, taken from the French by the British Navy, Army, and young Raffles. When, after six years of labor, the young clerk thought he had attained his principal ambition by being made Lieutenant-Governor of Java, European politics smashed...