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Buitenzorg Residency (Dutch: Residentie Buitenzorg) was an administrative division of the Dutch East Indies located in western Java which existed from 1817 to 1867 and from 1925 to 1942. Its seat was at Buitenzorg (today Bogor, Indonesia) which was also the seat of the colonial government of the Indies after 1905.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the agronomic research institute established at the Buitenzorg botanic gardens in Dutch Java transformed the way Europeans organized and conceptualized colonial agriculture.
In 1875 the Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg introduced two coca plants on the island of Java, which was then part of the Netherlands East Indies. Within a thirty-year period, starting in 1892, Java succeeded in becoming the world's leading.
1. Introduction, territory governed directly and self-governing native states. The N. E. Indies were divided in directly governed territories and self-governing territories. These latter were ruled over by, more or less, independent native monarchs. The native states were of special importance on the Outer Islands.
Oct 1, 2019 · The botanical garden in Buitenzorg, today's Bogor, in the immediate vicinity of Batavia (later called Hollandia and now known as Jakarta), the commercial centre of the Dutch East India...
By the dawn of 6 March, the Japanese troops had attacked Buitenzorg, which was guarded by the 10th Company, KNIL 2nd Infantry Regiment; 10th Company, 1st Infantry Regiment; Landstorm troops and a howitzer unit. In the morning Buitenzorg was occupied, while a large number of Allied soldiers had retreated to Bandoeng.
She died in Buitenzorg, West Java, on 26 November 1814, and was buried in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. Her tomb can still be seen in Taman Prasasti Museum , the former European cemetery of Batavia that had been converted into a museum.
