The First World War and the Indonesian Local Society

在1910年代上半叶，主要是属于荷兰、荷兰、印度和英国的大轮船承载着印度尼西亚的贸易，但由于第一次世界大战的爆发，底部严重短缺，并在1917年和1918年达到顶峰。这大大减少了印度尼西亚与欧洲国家的贸易，然而，印度尼西亚与亚洲国家和美利坚合众国的贸易却在不断增加。与此同时，日本船只开始更频繁地前往那里。轮船的到达和离开有很大的地区差异，即大型港口经历了严重的底部短缺，而靠近马来半岛的港口则没有。

It was mainly the big steamers belonging to the Netherlands, Netherlands India and the Great Britain that carried the trade of Indonesia in the first half of the 1910s, but the serious shortage of bottoms occurred by the outbreak of the First World War and peaked in 1917 and 1918. This much reduced the trade of Indonesia with European countries, which was however made up by the increasing trade with Asian countries and the United States of America. Simultaneously Japanese ships began to come there much more frequently. There were much regional differences in the arriving and leaving of steamers, namely, the large ports experienced serious shortage of bottoms but the ports near the Malay Peninsular not.