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Indonesia and the Netherlands share a special relationship, [1] embedded in their shared history of colonial interactions for centuries. It began during the spice trade as the Netherlands established the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) trading post in what is now Indonesia, before colonising it as the Dutch East Indies until the mid-20th century.
The Dutch East Indies, [3] also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
View of the Island and the City of Batavia Belonging to the Dutch, for the India Company. In 1603, the first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia was established in Banten, northwest Java, [7] and in 1611, another was established at Jayakarta (later renamed 'Batavia' and then 'Jakarta').
Since 1971, Universitas Indonesia (UI) in Jakarta has been the only university in Indonesia with a Dutch Language Department. Interest in studying Dutch is driven by its historical influence on Indonesian law, as the country's legal system is partially based on Dutch law, and many colonial-era texts remain relevant. Additionally, historical ...
The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, ... European influence, particularly that of the Dutch, would not have its ...
Under the cultivation system (or "tanam paksa" in Indonesian) in place for most of the 19th century, the Dutch colonial government in the Indonesian archipelago required indigenous farmers to deliver, as a sort of tax, fixed amounts of specified crops, such as sugar or coffee.
I’ve been meeting people who have connections to that part of the country’s history, whose grandparents were in the Dutch military and stationed in Indonesia at the time. So, for good or for ...
Steamboat connections in Ambon Residence, Dutch East Indies, in 1915. Dutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea (Dutch: Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, Indonesian: Nugini Belanda) was the western half of the island of New Guinea that was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962.