Netherlands Indies

Nederlandsch-Indië

Last modified: 2008-09-27 by ian macdonald
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• (No) flag of the Netherlands Indies
• Batavia

See also:

• Indonesia
• Indonesia - Index of all pages
• The Netherlands
• Indonesian states 1945 and 1950
• Indonesia - princely states
• Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies
• Dutch East India Company

The Dutch East Indies never had a flag on their own. Flags for the Dutch overseas dependencies were only adopted in the 1950s, when Indonesia was already independent.

Mark Sensen, 9 April 1998

image by Mark Sensen, 30 June 1999

There was however a (official?) flag for the capital Batavia, nowadays Jakarta.
Mark Sensen, 9 April 1998

A flag like this is shown in 1858 US flag chart [hbl58]:

"Batavia" at position (6;5) of [hbl58]: Rectangular ~2:3 flag with six horizontal stripes of red-white-blue and over all an emblem offset to the hoist: a white sword pointing up within a vertically elliptic green wreath tied at all four cardinal points with florettes. (Not enough detail for a proper image.)

This is similar to the Batavia flag shown above, but differs in the number of stripes (9), the color of the sword (golden), the position of the emblem (centred), and the details of the wreath (UN-like crossed branches, not a dense laurel crown).
António MARTINS-Tuválkin, 30 August 2008