Letter from the British Consulate General in Batavia on the situation in Indonesia (Batavia, 16 December 1949)
Text In a letter dated 16 December 1949, the British Consulate General in Batavia informs R. H. Scott, Head of the Foreign Office’s South East Asia Department, of the situation in Indonesia after the signing of the Round Table Conference Agreement on 2 November 1949, which provided for the transfer by the Netherlands of sovereignty of the former Dutch East Indies (excluding Netherlands New Guinea) to the Republic of the United States of Indonesia.
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Source: [Letter from British Consulate General, Batavia to R.H. Scott, Esq., C.B.E., South East Asia Department, Foreign Office (16 December 1949)]. 16-12-1949. No 115/108/49. Kept in: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). FO - Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office, FO 371 - Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966. Dutch negotiations leading to the transfer of sovereignty to the Indonesian Republican Government on 27 Dec 1949. Dutch summaries of events in Indonesia. Round Table Conference at the Hague. Code 62, file 10110. 01/01/1949-31/12/1949, FO 371/76138.
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