KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf (KLM-IIB) is an airline based Netherlands East Indies (present-day Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

),and also the precursor to Garuda Indonesia

Garuda Indonesia

PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk , publicly known as Garuda Indonesia, is the flag carrier of Indonesia. It is named after the mystical giant bird Garuda of Hinduism and Buddhist mythology. It is headquartered at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, near Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia...

.

History

It was founded on 1 August 1947 as a KLM subsidiary (due to the dissolution of KNILM),and all of the aircraft in KNILM fleet were later transferred to KLM-IIB.Besides than that,they also received 20 Dakota aircraft,previously operated by KNIL.

Based in Java, their destinations consist of domestic routes (within Indonesia) and also international routes (such as Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, Malaya,and Philippines

Philippines

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),operated by several Dakotas and 9 Consolidated PBY Catalina amphibious aircraft.

Nationalization by Indonesian Government

On 28 December 1949,KLM-IIB was nationalized by the Indonesian Government,as agreed by both Indonesian and Dutch Government during the 1949 Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference

Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference

The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference was held in the Hague from August 23 - November 2, 1949, between representatives of the Netherlands, the Republic of Indonesia and the BFO representing various states the Dutch had created in the Indonesian archipelago...

.Upon the nationalization,it was renamed as Garuda Indonesian Airways,and it remains to this day.