NETHERLANDS-INDIA
PUBLIC WORSHIP AND EDUCATION
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The Protestant clergymen are appointed by the Queen; they are 41 in number. The Roman Catholic priests are appointed by the Pope and recognized by or in the name of the Queen. The Jews have no rabbis and are so few that in no place have they a synagogue. The Government does not interfere with Mahommedan worship, but pilgrims to Mecca require to take out passports. Chinese religion is as free as all other kinds of public worship.
The Educational Department maintains a great many schools for Europeans and natives. At Batavia, Semarang, Soerabaja and Bandoeng are schools for higher education. Batavia, Djokjakarta and Soerabaja have also a school for mechanical engineers, and one for telegraph operators and postal officials, etc.; and Batavia one for craftsmen. There are, further, 359 Government schools, and 93 private schools; 20 public and 19 private colleges are devoted to the instruction of native schoolmasters and one for Chinese. schoolmasters (at Meester-Cornelis), seven to the instruction of sons of native officials, and, at Batavia and Soerabaja one to the education of Indian physicians, and one to the education of native magistrates, while 1,479 Government vernacular schools and 2,422 private vernacular schools give instruction to upwards of 357,313 pupils and 5,558 desa-schools to 377,686. The greater number of these private schools are managed by missionaries. In Semarang is a private European school for mechanical engineers. Batavia, Semarang and Soerabaja have each a technical school for natives. In Buitenzorg and Soekaboemi there is an agricultural school for Europeans and natives and in Buitenzorg a veterinary school for natives.
In a great many places private persons can be admitted into the military hospitals, while in the large towns general civil hospitals are maintained, and other hospitals for infectious diseases. Asylums for the insane are maintained at Buitenzorg and Lawang.
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TRADE AND NAVIGATION
Riouw, Bengkalis, Sabang and Merauke are free ports. The other ports are open for either general trade or only for native coasting navigation. Godowns where goods can be stored and sold, and from whence they can be exported without payment of import or export duties, are established at Batavia, Cheribon, Semarang, Soerabaja, Padang, Siboga, Baros, Singkel, Menado, Gorontalo, Ternate, Amboina Neira (Banda) and Macassar
The value of imports in 1917 was in Java and Madoera
In the other islands in 1917
339,087,518 guilders 157,592,961
The value of exports in 1917 was from Java and Madoera... 463,922,623 guilders
and from the other islands in 1917
355,616,103
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The mercantile marine of Netherlands-India, fishing boats, vessels not exceeding 7 cubic metres nett and river-trade ships not included, consisted in July, 1917, of 4,818 ships and vessels, of which 189 were steamers, with a total tonnage of 403,594 cubic
metres.
In 1917 there arrived from abroad:
7,934 steamers
6,003 sailing vessels
40 barges
Total-13,977 vessels with a tonnage of...
and in the same year there departed
7,078 steamers
4,795 sailing vessels
34 barges
11,907
tonnage 8,886,269 cubic metres
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969,323 112,820
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17
9,968,112
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tonnage 8,815,978 cubic metres
811,332 "" 96,252 "
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9,724,162
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Import duties are imposed in Java and Madura, the Residencies Sumatra's West-coast, Tapanoeli, Benkoelen, Lampong Districts, Palembang and Banka and Dependencies, the assistant-Residency Billiton, the Residency Djambi, the Division Indragiri of the Residency Riouw and Dependencies, and also in the District Kateman, with Danei now forming part of the Division Karimoen, the Government Sumatra's
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