NN — Elementaire Cursus Indonesië.

Amsterdam, Ministerie van Oorlog, 1947. Edition/druk: 2e druk. Volumes/banden: 1. Binding/band: Papieren omslag. Language/taal: nederlands. Original limp blue coloured publ. wrappers decorated in indonesian traditional art style, stapled. White title-label on front cover. Many captioned monochrome sketch-maps, comparative tables and diagrams in text, large exctending map illustrating the Indonesian archipalago at rear end, with key referring to place-names on facing page. Dutch language publication in which basic information about post-war Indonesia is supplied to Royal Dutch Navy officers to be posted in the Dutch East Indies, in support of dutch troops during the dutch-indonesian armed dispute, 1945-1950. Information is preceded by information about political relations within the Dutch Kingdom, e.g.: The Netherlands, the East-, West-Indies and minor colonial territories as New Guinea and Surinam; climate and geography, the indonesian population in general, Hinduism and Islam, commercial activities and world-trade: agriculture and strategic minerals, wold-connections by sea and air. An interesting brochure, stressing the importance of the colony from various points of view, incl. the strategic position serving as a buffer-sone to expanding communism in mainland . pp: 32pp. . Size/formaat: 8vo.