Thanks Hans, I can see where it might be taken for an overprint..when I saw the topic I thought it might have been about Dutch stamps that Indonesia overprinted around 1948-1949 !
I thought it was an overprint as there were no other features, such as wavy line, like a postmark normally would have. I don't know. It still looks like an overprint to me. If its a cancelation, what is the purpose of canceling it from a specific city or region?
The cancellation used on this stamp is called in dutch a "langstempel" . the English translation is long stamp ( although I am not sure that this is correct English). Another example of such a langstempel is given here
Langstempels are often combined with other types of cancellations
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