Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Indonesian Newspapers 1930-1950

If you are researching modern Indonesian history, between 1930 and 1950, this website may be of interest to you


Indonesian Newspaper Project (historic newspapers) [n.b. Text of newspapers not available in English]

 This is a special initiative of the Netherlands Institute for war Documentation which is digitising its major collection (and those of a number of other partner institutes including the Royal Institute for Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) in Leiden, the Royal Institute for the Tropics (KIT) in Amsterdam, the Royal Library (KB) in The Hague and the International Institute for Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam) of Indonesian newspapers covering the period 1930-1950. This is an important resource for social and political historians as it covers the period of the Second World War and Dutch and Japanese administration in Indonesia. Currently in the region of 100 titles are available in full text.  

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