How the Dutch Colonized Indonesia

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Who needs Manhattan anyways? Nutmeg will be extremely profitable forever

It's crazy how much the fate of billions of people has been altered all because certain plants taste really good

'The spice must flow' - Dutch (18th century)

The Dutch in Europe: 🤗🇳🇱🌷 The Dutch in Asia :😡🔪🌶️

Title: Contains Indonesia Indonesians: *Summoned*

In Indonesia, the way the Dutch made the Nusantaran people fight each other is called 'Adu Domba', literally meaning "Sheep fight". The kingdoms back then are always embroiled in their own struggles, they failed to see the Dutch controlling them for their own interests.

A friend of mine went on a trip to Indonesia last year and even though Indonesia doesn't speak Dutch, you can still see its influence on the language as there are many loanwords that come from Dutch, like handuk, asbak, polisi and stopkontakt! On the Dutch side Indonesian food is some of the most popular food in the Netherlands!

This may not be relevant here, but one of the reason the Dutch didn't interfere in the religion of the Indonesians i.e Islam, is because of their alliance with the Turks who both shared antagonism towards Catholics. The phrase Liever Turks dan Paaps ("Rather a Turk than a Papist") was a Dutch slogan during the Dutch Revolt of the end of the 16th century.

It is astounding how the Dutch were able to maintain a colony so far away from their homeland, and so much larger than them geographically and in population. Even for a modern army against natives, that’s nothing to scoff at.

Fun fact, there are so many "sacred" 18th century cannons in Indonesia that people said the weapons was possessed by the spirit of the ancestors. It is so sacred that some people even refuse to touch the cannons or even look at it. Tracing back to history, it is said that the "mystical" sacredness of such cannons, were made by the Dutch. To prevent any local rebellions who use gunpowder based weaponry. So after the fall/subjugations of major kingdoms in Nusantara. Many local rebellions only uses farming equipment or homemade melee weapons. This is why even in our history lesson back in the schools, they told us that local kingdoms are primitive compared to the European gunnery. The Sultan Agung offensive to Sunda Kelapa or Jakarta in the present day. Already equipped his soldiers with guns and cannons. Demak Sultanate naval offensive to the Portuguese in Malaka. Also utilized a huge Junk ship, that dwarves Portuguese ships at that time. But still, after a chain of defeats and local rivalries. European gunneries are far exceeding the local traditional technology.

"The Republic of Indonesia is made up of 10s thousands of islands, hundreds of cultures and languages." - Indonesia vs Estonia video

Well, Indonesia might be gigantic in size, but it was also pretty disconnected at that time, it's a gigantic archipelago afterall.

What happened to Europe on the first map? What are those shapes? It is abominal to say the least.

Got my kroepoek ready for this one

as an indo, i want to add that the true reason those dutchies sequoias colonized us is because we have cool mountains, something that's non-existent in their low altitude habitat, that is the netherlands. they're also great waterbenders so that kinda helps their quest in our country, which is broken ngl

my grandma when still alive told me that, when the Dutch colonialized, it did not feel like colonialized. everything is working normally. She’s working as a teacher at the Colomandu factory. what makes it different right now is Europeans fill all bureaucratic positions. colonialized felt strong when the Japanese came.

Indonesia back then was consist of independent kingdoms fighting each other for power and domination. The European, especially the Dutch, just take advantage of their rivalry by assisting one kingdom destroy their enemy then turned against them later. Repeat, and profit.

0:07 I didn't know that Czechs stopped drinking for a second and conquered Vienna.

Love from Aruba 🇦🇼 (Dutch Caribbean) to Indonesia 🇮🇩 and its people 🤝.