A republic stretching from the Indian Ocean east to New Guinea, comprising six main islands: Java, Sumatra, Bali, Kalimantan (the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo), Sulawesi (formerly known as the Celebes) and Irian Jaya (the western part of New Guinea). Its capital is Djakarta. The ethnic groups living there are largely Chinese, Arab, Eurasian, Indian, and Pakistani; 85% of the peoples are of the Islamic faith.
    

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Paradise lost : break the chain / BUAV.

Borneo: a woman seated next to a half-opened canopied area. Coloured lithograph by C.F. Kell after Carl Bock.

Two heads with decorative headpieces representing a man and woman as part of a statement about HIV and AIDS in Indonesia; by Epoch (Enabling Private Organization to Combat HIV/AIDS with support from The Ford Foundation and Hotline Surya. Colour lithograph, 1996.

Timor, Dutch East Indies: a herald of Amarassie. Coloured lithograph by A.S. Mulder after P.A. van Oort, ca. 1839.

Dutch East Indies (Java or Indonesia): three hunters with a dead leopard. Coloured lithograph by H.A. Henrici and W.J. Gordon, ca. 1839.

Indisch natuuronderzoek : een beknopte geschiedenis van de beoefening der natuurwetenschappen in de Nederlandsche koloniën.

Eastern approaches.

Bomoh/Dukun : the practices and philosophies of the traditional Malay healer / Roland Werner.

Occidental therapeutics in the Netherlands East Indies during three centuries of Netherlands settlement / (1600-1900) By Dr. D. Schout.

Observations on hepatic diseases incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / By Stephen Mathews.

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Indisch natuuronderzoek : een beknopte geschiedenis van de beoefening der natuurwetenschappen in de Nederlandsche koloniën.

Eastern approaches.

Bomoh/Dukun : the practices and philosophies of the traditional Malay healer / Roland Werner.

Occidental therapeutics in the Netherlands East Indies during three centuries of Netherlands settlement / (1600-1900) By Dr. D. Schout.

Observations on hepatic diseases incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies / By Stephen Mathews.