Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and B.C. de Jonge

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Original - Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and B.C. de Jonge, the last and second-to-last Governor-Generals of the Dutch East Indies before Japanese invasion. Dutch colonization started in 16th century, spearheaded by the Dutch East India Company, with primary aim to control the spice trade. During its last period, the colony covered most of Maritime Southeast Asia. Its territory would later became the nation of Indonesia.
Reason
historically significant as it shows two last Governor-generals of Dutch East Indies, representing the last period and peak of Dutch colonization in Maritime Southeast Asia
Articles in which this image appears
Dutch East Indies
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People
Creator
Tropenmuseum

Not Promoted --Jujutacular talk 23:49, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]