Archives Management and
Bureaucracy Development:
The Case of Transitional
Dutch East Indies, 1816-1830*
Introduction
The Napoleonic Wars of the nineteenth century affected the fate of an area
of interest to two European empires. In 1811, Java, which was previously a
Dutch trading post, came under the sphere of influence of the British Empire.
Continuing some of the previous administration's system, Lieutenant Governor
Thomas Stamford Raffles, as the representative of British government, introduced
Index registers on the verbaal of the General Secretary, first half nineteenth century.
This is an ongoing research, please not to quote without approval from author.
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