This is a list of governors and colonial administrators of the Dutch East Indies.
Governors Dutch East India Company rule Dutch East India CompanyPortraitNameTook officeLeft office1Pieter Both19 December 16106 November 16142Gerard Reynst6 November 16147 December 16153Laurens Reael7 December 161521 March 16194Jan Pieterszoon Coen30 April 16181 February 16235Pieter de Carpentier1 February 162330 September 1627(4)Jan Pieterszoon Coen30 September 162721 September 16296Jacques Specx22 September 162917 April 16327Hendrik Brouwer18 April 16321 January 16368Anthony van Diemen1 January 163619 April 16459Cornelis van der Lijn19 April 164526 April 165010Carel Reyniersz26 April 165019 May 165311Joan Maetsuycker19 May 16534 January 167812Rijckloff van Goens4 January 167825 November 168113Cornelis Speelman25 November 168111 January 168414Johannes Camphuys11 January 168424 November 169115Willem van Outhoorn24 September 169115 August 170416Joan van Hoorn15 August 170430 October 170917Abraham van Riebeeck30 October 170917 November 171318Christoffel van Swoll17 November 171312 November 171819Hendrick Zwaardecroon13 November 17188 July 172520Mattheus de Haan8 July 17251 June 172921Diederik Durven1 June 172928 May 173222Dirck van Cloon28 May 173210 March 173523Abraham Patras11 March 17353 May 173724Adriaan Valckenier3 May 17376 November 174125Johannes Thedens6 November 174128 May 174326Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff28 May 17431 November 175027Jacob Mossel1 November 175015 May 176128Petrus Albertus van der Parra15 May 176128 December 177529Jeremias van Riemsdijk28 December 17753 October 177730Reynier de Klerck4 October 17771 September 178031Willem Arnold Alting1 September 178017 February 1797 Dutch government rule Dutch East IndiesPortraitNameTook officeLeft officeMonarch1Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten16 August 179622 August 1801Batavian Republic2Johannes Siberg22 August 180119 October 18043Albertus Henricus Wiese19 October 18045 June 1806French interregnum in the Dutch East Indies under the Kingdom of Holland3Albertus Henricus Wiese5 June 180614 January 1808Lodewijk I4Herman Willem Daendels14 January 180815 May 1811Lodewijk II5Jan Willem Janssens15 May 181118 September 1811Napoleon IBritish interregnum in the Dutch East Indies—Robert Rollo Gillespie9 August 181118 September 1811George III6Stamford Raffles18 September 181112 March 18167John Fendall12 March 181619 August 1816Netherlands regained full control with three commissioners-general8Cornelis Theodorus Elout19 August 181616 January 1819Willem IGodert van der CapellenArnold Adriaan BuyskesCornelis Theodorus Elout and Arnold Adriaan Buyskes left9Godert van der Capellen16 January 18191 January 1826Willem I10Leonard du Bus de Gisignies2 January 182616 January 1830Hendrik Merkus de Kock11Johannes van den Bosch16 January 18302 July 183312Jean Chrétien Baud2 July 183329 February 183613Dominique Jacques de Eerens29 February 183630 May 1840—Carel van Hogendorp30 May 18406 January 184114Pieter Merkus6 January 18412 August 1844Willem II—Joan Cornelis Reynst2 August 184430 September 184515Jan Jacob Rochussen30 September 184512 May 185116Albertus Duymaer van Twist15 May 185122 May 1856Willem III17Charles Ferdinand Pahud22 May 18562 September 1861—Ary Prins2 September 186119 October 186118Ludolph Sloet van de Beele19 October 186125 October 1866—Ary Prins25 October 186628 December 186619Pieter Mijer28 December 18661 January 187220James Loudon1 January 187226 March 187521Johan Wilhelm van Lansberge26 March 187512 April 188122Frederik s'Jacob12 April 188120 January 188423Otto van Rees20 January 188429 September 188824Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk29 September 188817 October 189325Carel Aart van der Wijck17 October 18933 October 1899Wilhelmina26Willem Rooseboom3 October 18991 October 190427Johannes van Heutsz1 October 190418 December 190928Alexander Idenburg18 December 190921 March 191629Johan Paul van Limburg Stirum21 March 191624 March 192130Dirk Fock24 March 19216 September 192631Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff6 September 192611 September 193132Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge12 September 193116 September 193633Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh16 September 19368 March 1942Japanese occupation and Indonesian National Revolution—Hubertus Johannes van Mook8 March 194215 October 1948Wilhelmina—Louis Joseph Maria Beel29 October 194818 May 1949Juliana—Antonius Hermanus Lovink18 May 194927 December 1949Establishment of the Netherlands-Indonesia Union—Petrus Johannes Idenburg27 December 194915 February 1956Juliana See also Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies President of Indonesia List of presidents of Indonesia Prime Minister of Indonesia Footnotes
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