Below you will find articles about Indonesia. Or click here to view stamps in the catalogue with the subject Indonesia.
In 2005, the Portuguese Paulo Magalhäes (a lover of sending and receiving postcards) developed a website that provides participants with random addresses to send a postcard to other postcrossers anywhere in the world. The card recipient registers the card delivery...
Liechtenstein 2024 The Chinese New Year is upon us, this year being the Year of the Wood Snake. International designer Tiger Pan combined two traditional Chinese cultural elements for this Liechtenstein stamp sheet - the snake as a sacred animal...
1981 was proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations to be the International Year of Disabled Persons. Although many countries issued stamps featuring various disabilities that year, they were by no means the first stamps issued regarding the...
As a young boy collecting stamps I was often more attracted to those with colour and shape rather than rarity. Diamond-shaped stamps from Hungary, Monaco and the Burundi particularly caught my eye. The stamp on the left is from Hungary...
As a young twenty-something, I was very interested in modern history and painting. It was therefore a surprise to see two stamps from 1967 from Indonesia showing paintings by an artist I did not know: Raden...
In the 60s and 70s, the philatelic market was flooded with offers of 'misprints' of Indonesian stamps. As a collector of Indonesian stamps, I examined one series containing these 'misprints' at the time...
In July 1978, the series of stamps featuring images of musical instruments issued in 1967 suddenly appeared as postage due stamps. The overprint was applied in red. But on September 27, 1978, the series of overprints was reissued, this time, however, with an overprint...
It has become quite clear by now that many postal administrations resort to facts from the past to issue a series of commemorative stamps. Sometimes these are facts that have been 'dragged in by the hair'. The Indonesian Post issued on June 5, 2003...
The Indonesian postal service issued separate stamps for the former territory of New Guinea up to and including 1970 under the name Irian Barat. In the spring of 1966, President Sukarno was forced to resign, and in 1967 he wore...
On May 1, 1963, the United Nations transferred authority over West New Guinea to Indonesia. The latter named the territory Irian Barat. The Indonesian Postal Service had, to celebrate the fact that West New Guinea was becoming part of the...
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