| adat | tradition, customs |
| Balai Poestaka | state publishing house and bureau for popular literature |
| Boedi Oetomo | Noble Endeavour |
| boepati | indigenous regent |
| haatzaai-artikelen | hate-sowing articles |
| Indische Partij | Indies Party |
| Indische Vereeniging | Indies Students Association |
| indo | Eurasian |
| kapitan Tjina | a civil official appointed by the colonial authorities to oversee the local Chinese community |
| Kuomintang | Chinese Nationalist Party |
| Kweekschool | Teachersâ Training School |
| Landraad | District Court |
| peranakan Chinese | local-born mixed-blood Chinese, generally Malay- or Javanese-speaking; creolized Chinese |
| persbreidel | press curbing ordinance |
| persdelict | press offence |
| Raad van Justitie | Court of Justice |
| Raad van Nederlandsch-Indië | Council of the Netherlands Indies |
| Rechtshoogeschool | Law College |
| Sarekat Islam | Islamic Association |
| Sarekat Prijaji | Aristocrats Association |
| spreekdelict | speech offence |
| totok Chinese | full-blooded, more recent Chinese immigrants, whose mother tongues were various Chinese dialects |
| Volksraad | Peopleâs Council in the Indies, established in 1918 |
| Volkslectuur | the Dutch name of Balai Poestaka |
| wedono | middle-ranking official of the native territorial bureaucracy |