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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Consulate, Batavia, Dutch East...
Catalogue reference: FO 810
What's it about?
FO 810
This series contains general correspondence from the British consulate (later embassy) in Batavia (from 1950, Jakarta), Dutch East Indies (later Indonesia). Files relating to the Balibo massacre were made available in November 2002 after...
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FO 810
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Consulate, Batavia, Dutch East Indies and Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1946-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence from the British consulate (later embassy) in Batavia (from 1950, Jakarta), Dutch East Indies (later Indonesia). Files relating to the Balibo massacre were made available in November 2002 after representations were made to the FCO by families of the victims of the massacre.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Records for the period prior to the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, 1942 to 1946, were destroyed. The records for 1949 to 1963 were similarly lost when the embassy was looted and burned by rioters in September 1963.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1968-1968
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1897-1949
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1949-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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33 file(s)
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
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Additional safe handling procedures are in place. Records must be ordered in advance.
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Asia
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8109/
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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Consulate, Batavia, Dutch East Indies and Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia: General Correspondence
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