Elections to the Volksraad were held in the Dutch East Indies in 1939. Only ten percent of the population was allowed to vote, but this was only to choose...

The Volksraad (People's Council) was an advisory, and later semi-legislative institution for the Dutch East Indies, provided for by law in 1916 but only...

Elections to the Volksraad were held in the Dutch East Indies in 1935. The Volksraad had a total of 60 members, 38 of which were elected and 22 appointed...

Rasjid, was a politician and physician in the Dutch East Indies. He was elected or appointed to the Volksraad from 1931 to 1942, during which time he sat...

and sat as an independent in the Volksraad when eventually appointed to it in 1939. Notwithstanding supposed pro-Dutch sympathies, Kan supported the ill-fated...

the Dutch colonial state is clearly demonstrated by the fact that CHH was represented in the Volksraad – the embryonic legislature of the Dutch East Indies...

to Indies-born Chinese, but to all ethnic Chinese residents of the Indies, including totok Chinese. In the lead-up to the 1939 Volksraad election, this...

the lower classes of Indies Chinese who felt excluded from politics. By the 1930s Peranakan Chinese politics in the Dutch East Indies were dominated by the...

Siregar gelar Mangaraja Soangkupon) was a politician and Volksraad member in the Dutch East Indies. He was an Indonesian nationalist and was a political...

a Dutch feminist and politician who was active in the Dutch East Indies. She was the first female member of the colonial legislature, the Volksraad, where...