Nederlandsch Indie Air Mail Stamps - 1949

REPOEBLIK INDONESIA (Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia) issued a series of air mail stamps on 12 July 1949. The stamps were designed by Ernst Schrom and printed by Österreichische Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printer), using a Photogravure method.

Almost immediately after Japan's capitulation in World War II, the Republic of Indonesia was proclaimed. From 1945 to 1949 they issued their own stamps, often old stamps from the Dutch East Indies or from the Japanese occupation with overprint. Because the Netherlands reoccupied its former colony and issued stamps with the Dutch East Indies and later Indonesia again, a complex situation arose. It was made even more complex by the issue of the so-called Viennese editions, editions that balance on the edge of Cinderella and used stamps.