Author: MINISTERIE VAN OORLOG OEFENINGSAANWIJZING:
Title: Land- en Volkenkunde Indonesië.
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Ministerie van Oorlog-Generale Staf, 1947. Medium 8°. Original printed wrappers. 72pp. 18 captioned monochrome platesafter original phitographs illustrating typical traditional environmental surroundings, some indonesian population types, all rather in old-fashioned or pre- second world war style, some tables in text, table of contents. Copy marked Confidential, in print. [Oefeningsasnwijzing Nr. 35]. Dutch language informative booklet by which rather old-fashioned and obsolete information is supplied to officers and subaltern officers Dutch expeditionary forces, operating in post-war Indonesia during the dutch-indonesian armed dispute 1945-1949. Major attention is paid to geography and climate, means of subsistence, e.g. the economic importance of the colony, only a few chapters deal with religion and religious taboos, the indonesian population and some minimal info. about do's and dont's. Obviously winning the hearts and minds of locals was not, in the eyes of the ministry, the major objective of this booklet. Copy marked in print Confidential. Published by command of the dutch General Staff, ministry of defence. Very good copy. (some private ms. annotations in top margin of ti.-p., some traces of sellotape inside front cover).

Keywords: merdeka militaria information voorlichting armed dispute vrijheidsstrijd expeditionaryforce dutch colonialism confidential behaviour indonesia southeastasia resistance guerilla