Manokwari was in the past in the Dutch era

Manokwari Documentary at Masa

  Dutch Government

The Sultan of Tidore_Ternate is one of the rulers on the island of Papua, yes because the island of Papua at that time was his territory, but when the Dutch kingdom came, the surrender of the Papua area to the Dutch government by the Sultan of Tidore-Ternate at that time, the Dutch built a fort with the name of the fort being Fort Du Bus which was built at that time in Triton Bay at the height of the mountain peak lumencari village. Lobo kecapat kaiamana fafak district at that time.

On August 24, 1898, a statement was made by A.J. VanDelden by mentioning the proclamation of the New Gunea area or area which stretches along the 1400 east longitude line from south to southwest and the northern part of the goede hoop peninsula on the north coast is an area included in the contents of the proclamation. Except for areas that are not included include Mansari, Karondefer, Ambarpura and Ambepon belonging to the Sultan of Tidore which was declared to belong to the Netherlands,There was an agreement between the sultan of Tidore and the Dutch, the agreement was named Konte Verklarig where the Dutch took over the island of Papua around June 3, 1909

Manokwari City was the first area where government posts were first established and continued with Fakfak, here are two government posts at that time which were divided into two parts, namely:

Afdeling Noord Nieuw Guinea (North Irian Jaya): the capital city is Manokwari, whose administrative area covers Sorong to Jayapura; whereas;

Fakfak to Merauke (West Irian Jaya) are domiciled in Fakfak Afdeling West Nieuw

Around the year 1958 a shipyard designer named Ir.c.van konijnenburg, when he saw the draft file

When was the construction site of the shipyard at Sanggeng in 1957

A special video clip about the process of building a shipyard in Manokwari around 1956/1957

The location is the employee housing of the Konijnenberg Sanggeng shipyard in 1960 is a family photo of Hannie Aris-Verboon

Around 1957-1958, a Dutch-owned airline named Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea Luchtvaart Maatschappij Kroonduif/Nederlands Nieuw Guinea Aviation Company 'Kroonduif'/Mambruk with Dakota aircraft flew in Kebar-Kampung Anjai

You can see a photo of the Beynon family in the city of Manokwari, while the right position shows Isaak Jowe, a Papuan child who has been adopted by the Beynon family.

The atmosphere of Papuan children while studying at the Lagere B school this school has been managed or owned by endings Nederlands Hervormde Kerk (ZNHK) in 1958

The following is a denomination of 10 guilders used on the island of Papua during the Dutch government (Photo from the collection of the Barbara Benjamins-Gosewisch family)

One of the Dutch families, the Beijnon family, settled in Fanindi Manokwari in the 1950s

A captain named Williamz Geeroms who died in the battle between the Dutch troops and Japanese troops, the location of this eater was in the White Sands of Manokwari City in April 1994