Netherlands Indies 1789; Netherlands New Guinea 1800s

When the United East India Company went bankrupt and was formally dissolved in 1800, its possessions and debt were taken over by the government of the Dutch Batavian Republic and the VOC's territories became the Dutch East Indies. Over the course of the 19th and early 20th century it expanded to include the whole of the Indonesian archipelago, including west New Guinea. The red-white-blue flag of the Netherlands, officially established on 14 February 1796, became the flag of Netherlands New Guinea.