Buitenzorg Residency

The Assistant Resident's house in Buitenzorg, 1880s

Buitenzorg Residency (Dutch: Residentie Buitenzorg) was an administrative division (Residency) of the Dutch East Indies located in western Java which existed from 1817 to 1867 and from 1925 to 1942.[1][2] Its seat was at Buitenzorg (today Bogor, Indonesia) which was also the seat of the colonial government of the Indies after 1905.

  1. ^ Paulus, J., ed. (1917). Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië - Eerste Deel A–G (in Dutch). 's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff. pp. 419–20.
  2. ^ Cribb, R. B. (2000). Historical atlas of Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 123–6. ISBN 0-8248-2111-4.