Samenvatting

From 1890 onwards the Dutch East Indies were without its own institution for officer education. Officers for the East Indian Army were educated in the Netherlands. For half a century officers of the East Indian Army tried to bring about its restoration with the help of Indo-European and East Indian politicians. The Dutch political and military leadership successfully opposed this ambition, arguing that the Dutch East Indies had too little potential to sustainan officer education of sufficient quality of its own. Besides, the idea of an East Indian Army that was too independent was unwelcome in the Netherlands.