Batavia (ID)

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Batavia /now Jakarta Jakarta officially known as the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (Indonesian: Daerah Khusus Ibu Kota Jakarta), is the capital and largest city of Indonesia, and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. Established in the fourth century, the city became an important trading port for the Kingdom of Sunda. It was the de facto capital of the Dutch East Indies (known as Batavia at that time) and has continued as the capital of Indonesia since the country's independence was declared in 1945. For the Indonesian Period of Jakarta refer to https://www.stampsoftheworld.co.uk/wiki/Jakarta_(ID)

Read more @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta

Indonesia Postmarks

Cover from Djakarta to Semarang, 1954. Source: https://hqeemstamps.wordpress.com/author/hqeem/

Cover from Djakarta to Malang, 1957. Calcelled with Meter cancel. Source: https://hqeemstamps.wordpress.com/author/hqeem/

Netherlands Indies Postmarks

Postmark Batavia 1968. Second emission 1868. Stampset

Coded Postal Obliterator 4 (= Batavia). c.1876. Stampset

Squared circle BATAVIA in 1899. Stampset

Cancelled 1931, from permanent issues

1933 issue, cancel 5-12-1933, BATAVIA-CENTRUM. Depicted is Prince Willem-I

Netherland Indies, catalogued as nvph-196, 1934-1937 issue. Depicting Queen Wilhelmina. Cancel: Batavia-C 10-7-1935. See also StampSet at

Netherland Indies, catalogued as nvph-209, 1934 issue, Depicting Queen Wilhelmina, Cancel: Batavia-Molenvliet 3-10-38

Postmark Batavia 1937. Scouting stamp for 1937 Jamboree in the Netherlands.

Postmark Batavia 1938.

Postmark Batavia Kramat 1935.

Meter cancels

Meter cancel 1931

Meter cancel 1932

Meter cancel 1932

Meter cancel 1933

Meter cancel 1934

Meter cancel 1934

Meter cancel 1934

Meter cancel 1935

Meter cancel Batavia-Centrum 1935

Meter cancel 1937

Meter cancel 1937

Meter cancel 1940

Meter cancel 1940 (courtesy of Kalyan Negal)

Meter cancel 1941

Meter cancel 1941

Covers and Cards

First Flight Cover from Batavia (Netherlands Indies) to Tasmania (Australia), July 3, 1938. Postage stamp from Stampset

Postal card sent from Batavia-Centrum-200 to Boskoop in the Netherlands, 1939.

Censured airmail business cover sent 1940 from Batavia to New York City following the route: Batavia - Manilla (or HongKong?) - San Francisco - New York City. Stampset

Batavia-C to Cairo (Egypt) 1947. Postage stamps from: and

Batavia-C 1949.

Airmail Cover for a KLM first flight from Batavia (Netherlands Indies) to Canton (China) on May 19, 1949. Mixed franking with Indonesia stamps and one Netherlands Indies stamp.

Weltevreden, part of Batavia

Coded Postal Obliterator nr 1 (= Weltevreden). c.1888. Stampset

Postmark Squared Circle Weltevreden 1894. Stampset

Postmark Squared Circle Weltevreden 1898. Stampset

Square Circle Cancel Weltevreden 1902. Stampset

Slogan Cancels

Slogan cancel Weltevreden 1930. "Include your own address as the sender"

Cards and Covers

Letter Card sent from MUIDEN (9 DEC 1881) via WEESP (10 DEC 1881) in the Netherlands to Dutch East Indies via Napels (Italy). It arrived in WELTEVREDEN (in Batavia) (18 Jan 1882) on the island Java and was redirected to Soebang where it arrived on 20 Jan 1882). Also included is a hardly readible arrival cancel of Poerwakarta (20....1882). Courtesy of Jan Boon.

Meter cancels Weltevreden

Meter cancel 1930

Meter cancel 1930