How Did Dutch Imperialism Affect Indonesia

Colonialism generated by the east indies company is very often emphasized as it is, Indonesia practically under the Dutch dominion for circa 300 years. Throughout the 16th century, spice trade was exceedingly successful and lucrative, however, the Portuguese held the stranglehold on the source of the spices, Indonesia. For an extent of time, the Dutch were left with purchasing their spices in Lisbon, Portugal. Although they made a decent profit by reselling it throughout Europe, Spain was at war with the Netherlands, therefore, making the trade unfeasible to continue. The Dutch was eager to circumvent the Portuguese Monopoly of the spice trade in Indonesia, however, the areas were well guarded. It was June 1596 when the ravenous fleet from

Indonesia is often viewed as the top performing and industrializing economies in Southeast Asia (Indonesiainvestments.com). Indonesia’s economy increases with an imposing speed, originating from its versatile and opulent past. It is presumably considered that the Dutch arrival in Bantam in 1596 was the starting point of its colonization. Dutch colonization helped shape the framework of Indonesia, improving its weaknesses such as economic roles (Mohamad 4). The Dutch occupation lead to numerous of flourished trade routes with neighboring countries like China and India. In 1830, Johannes van den Bosh made the Indies spend their way for exploitation of resources. Indonesia’s abundance of natural resources such as sugar, tee, palm, coffee and spices made it the hub of trade for Southeast Asia. The Dutch induced the culutuurstelsel and forced plantation in Indonesia which eventually made Java a Dutch plantation (Suratno par.8). The revenue and profit continually increase during the 19th century. In the sixteenth century, the VOC dispatched almost two million Europeans for the Asian trade aboard on 4,985 ships, which successfully exploited 2.5 million tons of Asian trade goods. The VOC received substantial profits