This paper is part of a wider research project “Industriousness in an Imperial Economy”, which studies the influences of colonial connections on household labour allocation in the Dutch Empire, not only in the

The PhD-project Indigenous girlhoods and education in the Netherlands Indies, c. 1880-1940 proposes a new approach to Indonesian girls’ education under Dutch colonialism. Rather than on official educational policy, the focus in this project is on day-to-day experiences  in the context of girls’ schools. A...

J.B. van Heutsz (1851-1924) gained national fame as the man who brought peace to Aceh. In 1904 he was widely celebrated as a hero and appointed as governor-general of the Netherlands-Indies.

Membership in a business-group may affect a firm’s performance. Using the data of Indonesian manufacturing industry in 1996 and 2006, I find that being a member of a business group positively affected firms’