Postage stamps and postal history is like a story about the mail system of a place. The Dutch East Indies was a place (now known as Indonesia) which was colonized by the Dutch. Postage stamps were made for the Dutch East Indies so that people there could pay for sending mail. Different stamps were made over time, showing different things about the Dutch East Indies. Collecting these stamps and learning about the postal history of this place can be interesting because it can tell us a lot about the culture and history of the Dutch East Indies.