Difference Between Dutch And Indonesia

The Dutch and Indonesia
The Dutch stayed in Indonesia for 350 years and during the time they stayed they had absolute power over all the nations of Indonesia. In terms of economy they applied three systems to rule over Indonesia’s spices trade, Mercantilism, Capitalism and Monopoly. However if anyone decides to think about how the Dutch managed to take over such a vast nation with millions of people only with a handful of soldiers, it would occur to them that this was a battle the Dutch couldn’t win, but they applied an effective political strategy that brought Indonesia to its knees. This political strategy is called ‘divide et impera’. (Kompasiona.com) It is the strategy of breaking larger groups into small groups in order to gain dominance over them. On the other hand, robbing Indonesia of its resources and freedom wasn’t their only goal. Besides the Soldiers and Explorers there were also missionaries that tagged along with them. These few missionaries wanted to spread God’s word to Indonesia by persuading the natives to believe In Jesus.(seputarpendidikan.com) The Dutch left a lot of influence in terms of politics, religion and economy and has not faded away even after Indonesia’s independence.
The Dutch forced the Indonesian farmers to work overtime in order to gain more spices like Nutmegs, Cloves and Pepper,etc. After receiving these spices the Dutch would then sell the spices in Europe,
This religion has evolved dramatically over the past few years and it’s risen to become the second largest religion in all of Indonesia, and even their economic systems has been adopted by the big business groups here in Indonesia, now they can rule the business market and the little business groups won’t have a chance of catching up. Even divide et impera, the political strategy that robbed Indonesia’s freedom is still in use to this day by Politicians as a second