SOUTH MOLUCCAS / MALUKU SELATAN - ZUID-MOLUKKEN.
Stamps issued abroad by the self-proclaimed South Molican government.
Fifth Anniversary of Pacific Liberation.
Map of Indonesian islands and General Douglas MacArthur.
Seventh stamp in a set of 9, issued in 1955.
Face value: 1 rupee.
Printed by the Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Wien (1955).
Catalogs
- Dai Nippon No. 106-07.
- StampWorld No. 24.
The Republic of the South Moluccas (Republik Maluku Selatan) is an unrecognized secessionist republic in the archipelago of the South Moluccas, in present-day Indonesia, which claims the islands of Ambon, Buru, and Seram. When Indonesia gained independence in December 1949 through a treaty with the Netherlands, the rebels in the Southern Moluccas remained loyal to the Dutch Crown and, after a failed attempt to stay out of the new republic, unilaterally declared the Republic of South Moluccas in April 25, 1950. The self-proclaimed government settled in Seram, where the armed struggle continued until December 1963. In 1966 a government in exile was established in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, however, the Republic of the Southern Moluccas issued stamps (which were never circulated) financed from New York by the merchant Henry Stolow, who was behind the issuance of numerous stamps of doubtful validity. These emissions, considered cindarellas, are not usually included in catalogs.
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