The Netherlands and Indonesia share a long history dating back to the 16th century, even shortly before the founding of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The National Archives has more than 700 archives.
The archive in Indonesia has been in de facto since January 28, 1892. Exactly, it was when the Dutch East Indies Government established the Landarchief.
The aim of the foundation is to restore and maintain the Peutjut military cemetery from 1874 in Banda Aceh. [Dutch]
The IGV has developed into an institution that partly gives direction to genealogical research in the Dutch East Indies, the Caribbean and South America. The focus is on the Dutch East Indies. The publication of research results is stimulated, among other things, by the publication of "De Indische Navorscher". [Dutch]
An Inventory Of Tomb-Stones of the Museum Taman Prasasti. More than 1000 descriptions and photographs of tomb-stones of the Tanah Abang cemetery, Jakarta, founded in 1798. Including a name index and transcriptions in Dutch or English and translations in Bahasa Indonesia.
The project "Colonial Monuments of the Dutch East Indies" aims to record knowledge about the monuments erected during the colonial period of the Dutch East Indies (until 1949, New Guinea 1962). It can be seen as a supplement to an earlier project of the KITLV, ‘Postkoloniale monumenten in Nederland’ by Oostindie, Schulte Nordholt and Steijlen. (KITLV, 2011). The idea behind the project is that these monuments provide us with a lot of knowledge about the way in which colonial society was organized and which values were considered important by the ruling elite. As a special circumstance, the vast majority of colonial monuments were destroyed during the period of Japanese occupation and subsequent struggle for independence.
