Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte
Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte was a Dutch politician.
Pleyte was minister of Colonies in the Cort van der Linden cabinet. He became known as a liberal minister who founded the People's Council in 1916, a move that is widely regarded as the important first step to give the native population of the Dutch East Indies an equal say in government. Pleyte was fluent in Malay and Javanese.
