The Battle of the Java Sea in 1942 was disastrous for the Allied Powers and the Netherlands experienced heavy casualties: roughly 900 Dutch and 250 Indo-Dutch sailors died.

Amsterdam has announced long-awaited plans to build a new waterfront museum to “tell the whole story” of the Dutch history of slavery, which should open in 2030. “This is a national history, a ...

In the early hours of February 28th, 1942, the Dutch cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter sank in the Java Sea, marking the end of a fierce battle between the Allied and Japanese forces. Nearly 80 years later, in ...

It might be the second-biggest city in the world’s fourth-biggest country by population, but the malls, Dutch colonial ...

Perang Jawa ( The Java War) is being billed as Jumbo producer Visinema’s “most ambitious” feature to date, with company ...