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Oct 27, 2018 · Abstract. Oilfields can easily turn into battlefields. This happened more than once in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in the 1940s, where Japanese, Dutch, Allied and Indonesian forces fought fierce battles over the control of the local oil facilities.
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The collection comprises cartographic material of the former Dutch colonies of present-day Indonesia, Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles and the regions of the Dutch East- and West-India companies (VOC and WIC).
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Download Free PDF. The battle for oil in the Dutch East Indies. Ben Wallis de Vries. 2018. Oilfields can easily turn into battlefields. This happened more than once in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in the 1940s, where Japanese, Dutch, Allied and Indonesian forces fought fierce battles over the control of the local oil facilities.
Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java.
The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied forces attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands.
- 8 December 1941-9 March 1942 [ 1]
- Japanese victory
- Dutch East Indies
- Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
This unacceptable situation transformed the capture of the Dutch East Indies (DEI) and its oil, at first planned as a desirable strategic objective, into a vital ingredient for Japanese national survival.
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Oil fields can easily turn into battlefields. This concise history illuminates how, from the 1920s on, the South Sumatran city of Palembang, in the former colony of the Dutch East Indies, with its harbor and perfect river infrastructure, gained new importance from the booming oil industry and the growth of a petroleumscape.
