The accommodation available for the personnel of the Royal Netherlands Navy at the naval base Tandjong Priok, Dutch East Indies on 6 August 1946

In 1946 ordered the Dutch supreme commanding officer in the Far East by order no. 62 to investigate the harbours including shipyards in the Dutch East Indies and Netherlands New Guinea. In those so-called Sitraps (Situation reports) was information collected dealing with the available facilities, personnel and vessels/boats. The Dutch East Indies fell in Japanese hands in the Second World War when the Dutch forces surrendered on 8 March 1942 until Japan surrendered on her turn on 15 August 1945. On 17 August 1945 declared nationalistic leaders like Soekarno and Hadda the independence of what was called the Republic Indonesia. The result was a struggle for years before the Netherlands forced by international pressure accepted the Indonesian independence on 29 December 1949.

An item reported that the personnel of the Royal Netherlands Navy stationed at Tandjong Priok was accommodated in the office of the Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (K.P.M.) at the so-called Kali Mati, Tandjong Priok. Furthermore were some warehouses of the K.P.M. whole or partly for the same purpose used just like former storage sheds. Former storage space was also used to accommodate the naval warehouse service, the naval doctor, infirmary and the drug lockup. To accommodate navy officers and working space of the navy dentist were some wood built bungalows available.

Source
Archive Dutch Marinestaf (1942) 1945-1948 inventory number 197, National Archive, The Hague.