Benkoelen Residency

Benkoelen Residency
Residentie Benkoelen
Residency of Dutch East Indies
1824–1942

Map of Benkoelen ressidentie
CapitalBenkoelen
History 
2 June 1824
14 February – 28 March 1942
Today part ofBengkulu

Benkoelen Residency (Dutch: Residentie Benkoelen), also spelled Bencoolen, is an administrative subdivision of the Dutch East Indies, covering the present-day province of Bengkulu, Indonesia. Benkoelen was a British colony before they ceded it to the Netherlands in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824.[1] It was one of the control center of the Dutch before independence, though after independence it became the resident of Bengkulu prefect. Initially it was the part of Sumatra, with the division of Sumatra, it became the part of Southern Sumatra. Further, on the demand of Bengkulu Struggle Agency and according to Law no. 9/1967 Junkto Government Regulation no. 20/1968,[2] Bengkulu became an all-new province, thereby making the Benkoelen Residency a part of it.[3]

  1. ^ Roberts, Edmund (1837). Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 34.
  2. ^ "History of Bengkulu Residency".
  3. ^ "Benkulen".

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