The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Women's Corps (Dutch: Vrouwenkorps van het Koninklijk Nederlands(ch)-Indisch Leger, VK-KNIL) was the women's branch of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) that consisted of female oorlogsvrijwilligers.

[1] In August 1943, the Netherlands East Indies Commission for Australia and New Zealand (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indische Commissie voor Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland, NINDICOM) in Melbourne wrote to the minister of the Colonies with the request to send information about the women's auxiliary corps that the Dutch government-in-exile intended to set up in England.

Blom, member of the Council of Assistance for Netherlands East Indies Affairs (Dutch: Raad van Bijstand voor Nederlands(ch)-Indische Zaken) in London, forwarded all documents concerning the organization of the women's auxiliary corps to the commission in Australia.

[3] Quoting Mrs Blom-Gelderman, recruiting officer in New York City: "The VK-KNIL was founded with a focus on "island hopping".

They were often well-educated and were deployed for additional tasks as a pharmacist (assistant), secretary, nurse or for work in the soup kitchens and canteens.

[1] In the first years after formation, recruits did receive weapons training, but in practice VK-KNIL members served unarmed.

[3] The women of the VK-KNIL were trained to assist in the liberation of the Dutch East Indies, they were ill-equipped for the nascent Indonesian National Revolution.

During the Bersiap period, a number of Vrouwenkorps members found themselves briefly imprisoned by Indonesian nationalists before they were liberated by British troops.

The VK-KNIL was to be disbanded on 6 April 1946, but in February of that year it was decided to keep the corps active due to a large personnel shortage.

The barracks on Laan Holle in Batavia (present-day Jakarta), the former Ursuline convent, functioned as the headquarters of the VK-KNIL.

A survey of 68 VK-KNIL veterans at a reunion in 1994 found that at least half of the women had entered into long-term relationships during their time in service, which had resulted in marriages.