User:Mhatopzz/Governorates of the Dutch East Indies

Gouvernement or Provincie were the top level administrative subdivision of the Dutch East Indies. The title Gouvernement applied to every Island territories of the Dutch East Indies except for Java where it was called a Province. Every Governorates or Provinces was held by a Dutch colonial administrator, except for the Vorstenlanden area where it was headed by the monarchs of Surakarta and Yogyakarta.