Setting the Stage
The Dutch Empire ahttp://img09.deviantart.net/8fb0/i/2009/122/2/8/netherlands_grunge_flag_by_think0.jpgnd the British Empire were very similar since the government took over from a company of their nation for the colonisation of another country. The Dutch East India Com pany first “colonised” the Indonesian archipelago, and then after 1799, The Dutch government took over the Dutch East India Company and “modified the company’s loose control of Java and gradually built a modern bureaucratic state” (Mckay). So the Dutch government saw that the Dutch East India Company was gaining great profits from the colonisation of Indonesia.This meant that the Dutch East India wanted Indonesia for their own industrial capitalism. This …show more content…
This is evident when the Dutch created a “monopoly of the fine spices of Maluku” (Ooi). This can be considered as a long term effect since the Dutch and Indonesians still have a spice trade to this day. The only difference is that the Dutch do not make money off of the Indonesian spices although they still have access to that luxury. Indonesia was rich in crops, and the distribution of the crops may have led to a higher profit for the entrepreneurs in Holland. This is evident when “Indonesia was then known as the main resource with 60% of their resources being raw products such as rice, fruit, vegetables, coffee, sugar and etc” (Dutch in Indonesia). The Dutch had a mass production/cultivation of Indonesian goods. Leading to a massive profit of these products back in Europe. This is a Short Term effect. The civilisation of an area may have been a part of a benefit for the Dutch because after making Indonesia more “controllable”, It could have been safer for more of the Dutch colonisers to live there. This is evident when “[the Dutch] spent most of their earnings trying to control an uncontrollable Indonesia” (Engrade). This shows how the Dutch made massive efforts to control Indonesians and this gave them a benefit by possibly making Indonesia “safer” for outside forces to come and settle comfortably in …show more content…
No matter how many efforts the Dutch made to civilise the natives, they could not be controlled and they always go back to their barbaric ways. It is known that the Dutch went to great extents to attempt to civilise the animalistic natives when “[the Dutch] spent most of their earnings trying to control an uncontrollable Indonesia” (Engrade). All of that money was spent for nothing, no matter how much money the Dutch spent on their mission to civilise a hopeless population. They have been brought back to their barbaric ways by the silver tongue of the terrorists Sukarno and Mohammed Hatta. Their sly and seductive speeches made it to the general population and created a burning desire for independence. Terrorist all across the nation banded together to create a resistance against the noble european settlers. Jens Michael Hauggaard’s grandfather even participated in some of these atrocities at the age of seventeen. Armed with knives and poison, he set out to fight for his “freedom”. This proves how the words of Sukarno and Muhhamed Hatta brainwashed the youth of the native population to arm themselves with household tools and fight for their country. Another group of young terrorists in Surabaya climbed atop a the Mahapahit Hotel and tore the blue off of the Dutch flag (Flag of Indonesia). This happened in 1945, some could argue that this was a declaration of war since they obviously wanted to be noticed
The Dutch Empire ahttp://img09.deviantart.net/8fb0/i/2009/122/2/8/netherlands_grunge_flag_by_think0.jpgnd the British Empire were very similar since the government took over from a company of their nation for the colonisation of another country. The Dutch East India Com pany first “colonised” the Indonesian archipelago, and then after 1799, The Dutch government took over the Dutch East India Company and “modified the company’s loose control of Java and gradually built a modern bureaucratic state” (Mckay). So the Dutch government saw that the Dutch East India Company was gaining great profits from the colonisation of Indonesia.This meant that the Dutch East India wanted Indonesia for their own industrial capitalism. This …show more content…
This is evident when the Dutch created a “monopoly of the fine spices of Maluku” (Ooi). This can be considered as a long term effect since the Dutch and Indonesians still have a spice trade to this day. The only difference is that the Dutch do not make money off of the Indonesian spices although they still have access to that luxury. Indonesia was rich in crops, and the distribution of the crops may have led to a higher profit for the entrepreneurs in Holland. This is evident when “Indonesia was then known as the main resource with 60% of their resources being raw products such as rice, fruit, vegetables, coffee, sugar and etc” (Dutch in Indonesia). The Dutch had a mass production/cultivation of Indonesian goods. Leading to a massive profit of these products back in Europe. This is a Short Term effect. The civilisation of an area may have been a part of a benefit for the Dutch because after making Indonesia more “controllable”, It could have been safer for more of the Dutch colonisers to live there. This is evident when “[the Dutch] spent most of their earnings trying to control an uncontrollable Indonesia” (Engrade). This shows how the Dutch made massive efforts to control Indonesians and this gave them a benefit by possibly making Indonesia “safer” for outside forces to come and settle comfortably in …show more content…
No matter how many efforts the Dutch made to civilise the natives, they could not be controlled and they always go back to their barbaric ways. It is known that the Dutch went to great extents to attempt to civilise the animalistic natives when “[the Dutch] spent most of their earnings trying to control an uncontrollable Indonesia” (Engrade). All of that money was spent for nothing, no matter how much money the Dutch spent on their mission to civilise a hopeless population. They have been brought back to their barbaric ways by the silver tongue of the terrorists Sukarno and Mohammed Hatta. Their sly and seductive speeches made it to the general population and created a burning desire for independence. Terrorist all across the nation banded together to create a resistance against the noble european settlers. Jens Michael Hauggaard’s grandfather even participated in some of these atrocities at the age of seventeen. Armed with knives and poison, he set out to fight for his “freedom”. This proves how the words of Sukarno and Muhhamed Hatta brainwashed the youth of the native population to arm themselves with household tools and fight for their country. Another group of young terrorists in Surabaya climbed atop a the Mahapahit Hotel and tore the blue off of the Dutch flag (Flag of Indonesia). This happened in 1945, some could argue that this was a declaration of war since they obviously wanted to be noticed