is 2nd from the right. Many of the party's supporters had become members for different reasons than supporters of the NSB in the
Netherlands. The rise of
Indonesian nationalism and the
Japanese threat was for many
ultranationalist Indos reason to join. Another reason was the feeling among Indos that as party members they were equal to
Totoks ('pure blooded' Dutch). The party flourished from 1933, and after a visit of
Anton Mussert to the colony in 1935, membership peaked at around 5000. The party's membership began to decline rapidly in the late 1930s, when the NSB, taking from the
Nazi Party, started adopting more
racialist and
Blut und Boden views. The party retained around 1100 members and 680 sympathisers. The government banned membership of the party for civil servants on 9 May 1940, immediately after its European counterpart entered into
collaboration with
Nazi Germany. Around 500 members of the party were arrested on the orders of
governor-general Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh. Most members of the party left for the Netherlands following the
Japanese surrender and
Indonesian independence war. There they were treated equally to Dutch NSB members who had renounced their membership prior to 10 May 1940. Most of its members, unlike their Dutch counterparts, did not commit
treason and were pardoned in 1947. == Notable members ==