The French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies took place between 1806 and 1816. The French ruled between 1806 and 1811, while the British took over from 1811 to 1816 and transferred its control back to the Dutch in 1816. However Java and Sumatra were only returned in July 1821.

The French invaded the Dutch Republic and established the Batavian Republic by 1795, and then the Kingdom of Holland in 1806. The fall of the Netherlands to Revolutionary France