Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte
Thomas Bastiaan Pleyte was a Dutch politician.
Pleyte was Minister of the Colonies in the cabinet of Pieter Cort van der Linden. 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 Netherlands East Indies an equal say in government. Pleyte was fluent in Malay and Javanese.