Johan Herman Bernhard Kuneman ( – ) was a Dutch governor in the

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

and, in his youth, a footballer. He was part of the Netherlands national team, playing one match on 25 October 1908. From 1933 to 1936 he was governor of East Java and served as a member of the

Council of the Dutch East Indies The Council of the Indies ( nl, Raad van Indië; id, Dewan Hindia) was a body established in 1610 to advise and limit the powers of the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Initially the council had four members and a chairman, all Dutch na ...

at time he was taken prisoner of the occupying Japanese in World War II. He died in an Internment camp in Central Java, several weeks after the official surrender of the Japanese in the Dutch Indies. He was buried at Menteng Pulo Cemetery,

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...

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* * 1886 births 1945 deaths Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies Dutch footballers Netherlands international footballers People from Purwakarta Regency HBS Craeyenhout players Association football defenders Dutch people who died in Japanese internment camps {{Netherlands-footy-defender-stub

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