The First World War and the Indonesian Local Society

在1910年代上半期，主要是荷兰、荷属印度和英国的大轮船进行印度尼西亚的贸易，但第一次世界大战爆发后，船底严重短缺，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，但与亚洲国家和美利坚合众国的贸易增加了。与此同时，日本船只开始更频繁地来到这里。轮船的抵离存在着较大的区域差异，即大港口的船底严重短缺，而靠近马来半岛的港口则不严重。

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.