Dutch East Indies
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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His father, a prisoner of war in the Dutch East Indies, would have likely died in Japanese custody had American forces not swept through the Pacific.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Football-mad Indonesia participated in the World Cup just once, in 1938, when it was known as the Dutch East Indies, losing 6-0 in the final 16 to Hungary.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
To my question then, that would Indonesia consider letting Aceh go as well, Dewi had retorted that Indonesia was either the former Dutch East Indies or it was nothing.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2024
Jacob Luitjens was born April 18, 1919, in Buitenzorg, in what was then the Dutch East Indies, now Bogor on the Indonesian island of Java.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022
He told me that after the war he wanted to go to the Dutch East Indies and live on a rubber plantation.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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