Holland_Belgium-Dutch+East+Indies

Julia Martin

The Dutch colony that had become a modern Indonesia which follows into The World War II. It was informed from the natioalised colonies of the former Dutch East India Company the had came under the adminisrtation of the Netherlands in the 1800's. During the 19th cenutry, the Dutch possessions in the Archipelago and it's hegemony were expanded, while reaching their greatest extent in the early 20th century. The colony was based on a rigid racial and social categoisations with an upper class which the Dutch elite living separated but linked to their native subjects. while following the World War II the Japanese occupation, the Indonesian nationalists declared the Indonesian Independence in 1945. Thereafter as a consequence of the subsequent the Indonesian National Revolution the Netherlands formally recognised Indonesian sovereignty in December 27, 1949. Dutch economic strategy for the colony during the 18th and 19th cenutries can be defined along three overlapping periods, The Cultivation System, the Liberal Period, and the Ethical Period. Throughout the periods, and until Indonesian independence, the exploitation of Indonesia's wealth contributed to the industrialisation of the Netherlands. Large expanses of Java, for example it became a plantations cultivated by Javanese peasents, that collected by Chinese intermediaries. Before the World War II, the Dutch East Indies produced the most of the world's supply of quinine and pepper, over a third of its tea, sugar, coffee, and oil. The indonesia had made the Netherlands on of the world's most significant colonial powers.

Dutch civil and commercial law codes were translated into Malay in 1918. The Dutch government adapted the Dutch codeof law in it's colony. When the Indonesians secured it's independencer, and at first adopted the legal system left by the Dutch colonial goevernment. It only gradually, "the Indonesian authorities began creating a national legal system based on the Inodnesian precepts of law and justice", that was worte by the bussiness law professor Benny S. Tabalujan. "Amoung the younger generation of Inodnesian legal practitioners, almost nobody reads Duch anymore," the Professor Pompe says. Paradoxically this reality, he believes, is not alwasy an advantageous for the Indonesians. "I have seen people fall into an unncessary legal wrangling in cases which clearly have precedent in indonesia's colonial times. If only one would read into the Dutch-language archives, it could have saved them a lot of trouble. Crops such as (coffee, tea, cacao, tobacco, and rubber) they were all introduced by the Dutch, and by the early 19th century Java was the thrid largest producer of coffee in the world. In 1778 the Dutch brought cacao from the Philippines to the Indonesia and commenced mass production. The Indonesia is the world second largest producer of natural rubber, a crop that has was introduced by the Dutch in the early 20th century. Tobacco was introduced from the Americans and in 1863 the first plantation was establlished by the Dutch, making the Indonesia the oldest industrial producer of tobacco.

The colonial and the VOC heritage in the Netherlands is visible in the many street names referring back of Indonesian places, a few Malay words in the Dutch vocabulary, an abundance of Indonesian food and restaurants available throughtout the country and most of all it's largest Ethnic minority community of Indo Eurasians. Many of ther main cities in the Netherlands were develooped during the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th cenutry financed by corporate revenue from the Asian trade monopolies. Moreover social status was based on merchants income, it reduced the old feudal power based and considerably changing the dynamics of Dutch society, and after being a Republic the Netherlands only established it's monarchy in 1815.

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