:::: Getting acquainted with the author drs (msc) D. Teeuwen ::::

Getting acquainted with the author drs (msc) D. Teeuwen and with the aims of this site

Let me introduce myself! My name is Dirk Teeuwen. I have been married for a long time.

I am a senior lecturer at the polytechnical institute of advanced and higher education “Hogeschool Rotterdam” in The Netherlands. I got my degrees business economics and social / economic history with subsidiaries actuarial mathematics and pedagogical psychology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

I travel a lot and have been travelling on historical research all over Indonesia many times.
The result is a bond with this archipelago. I have the feeling that Indonesia with its hearty, open and gentle people has become my second homeland.

The name of the site “rendez-vous-batavia” was taken from history. The V. O. C. (Dutch East-India Company 1602 – 1799) assembled from time to time its home fleet in the roads of Batavia / Jakarta to set out on the return voyage back to The Netherlands. This assembly in the roads of Batavia / Jakarta was called “rendez-vous” or rendezvous / meeting place in English. Our chief purpose and ideal is to develop a site which could serve as a meeting place of visitors interested in Indonesia, Dutch colonial history and Dutch political, military, economic, social, architectural and artistic achievements all over world and in Indonesia in particular.

The aim of the site www.rendez-vous-batavia.nl is the following.
- To contribute to the publicity of the history of Nederlandsch-Indië / Dutch East-India, in Indonesia known as the Dutch period. See our articles in “History of Indonesia”and “Colonial institutions”.
- Our ambition is to call attention to colonial Dutch-Indonesian architecture and to stimulate tourist interest in monuments of that sort. See the articles in our “Photo-gallery”, “Art-gallery” and ”Travelling experiences”.

- We make an attempt to rescue from oblivion the military efforts of the Royal Dutch East-Indian Army, its European and Indonesian soldiers, its non-commissioned officers as well as the officers. See our articles in “The Dutch East-Indian Army, KNIL”.

The site goes further than Indonesian history only.

One of the many Cape-Dutch historical monuments in South-Africa

- Subjects related to Dutch colonial past in Indonesia will pass in revue, such as aspects of South-Africa, India, Sri Lanka / Ceylon, Malaysia, etc.
Dutch influence in Asia, Africa (and America also) was gigantic and there were, and are, many interrelations.
- To stimulate attention we try to illustrate our site with pictures as much as possible. Maybe this approach makes reading easy.

In conclusion! The site came about with the help and continuing critical encouragement of my friend and neighbour mr H. Doorn.