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The name Dutch Indies is recorded in the Dutch East India Company 's documents of the early 1620s. Scholars writing in English use the terms Indie, IndiÃ«, indies The Dutch East, indies The Netherlands, indies and Colonial indonesia. interchangeablyince the VOC era, the highest Dutch authority in the colony resided with the 'Office of the Governor-General'. During the Dutch East Indies era the Governor-General functioned as chief executive president of colonial government and served as commander-in-chief of the colonial (KNIL) army.
The Dutch Empire (Dutch: Nederlands-koloniale Rijk) comprised the overseas territories controlled by the Dutch Republic and, later, the modern Netherlands from the 17th century to the mid-1950s.The Dutch followed Portugal and Spain in establishing an overseas colonial empire.For this, they were aided by their skills in shipping and trade and the surge of nationalism accompanying the struggle for independence from Spain.he Dutch colonized Mauritius in 1638, several decades after three ships out of the Dutch Second Fleet sent to the Spice Islands were blown off course in a storm and landed in 1598. They named it in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the Stadtholder of the Netherlands.