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Dutch Imperialism In Ireland
The Dutch were one of the most powerful colonies in the world at the time. One of their greatest conquers is in Southeast Asia. The Dutch arrived in Indonesia in 1596. Dutch colonialism was carried out initially by the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C.) from 1605 to
1799. The VOC created forts and settlements in places as widely dispersed as Mocca (Arabian
Peninsula), Surat (Gujarat), Colombo and Galle (Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon), Calcutta (Bengal),
Beijing, Macau and Canton (China), Deshima (Japan), Manilla (Philippines), Malacca
(Singapore) and Suriname (then called ‘Dutch Guiana’ in northern South America). The Dutch also ventured south of the Indonesian archipelago and mapped New Holland – (most of) present day Australia. In 1602, the Dutch
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The Dutch wanted to gain supremacy in the Asian trading sphere – particularly over the British and the Portuguese. The Dutch were in Indonesia for 250 years. This is just some background information on how the colony of The Netherlands came to be in Southeast Asia.
Colonizers from the Netherlands came from all over the world. They came from the country the Netherlands, in Europe. Southeast Asia was one of the first areas the Dutch colonized in. The Dutch had taken control of most of the commercial islands in the East Indies and occupied Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, and Java. They built a port at Batavia and kicked out the Portuguese from the Indies, except for East Timor. In 1806, with the Netherlands under
French domination, Napoleon appointed his brother Louis Bonaparte to the Dutch throne which led to the 1808 appointment of Marshall Herman and Willem Daendels to Governor General of the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch could not keep the Netherlands East Indies after WWII as they hoped to because the Indonesians fought a war of national liberation to set up a republic in 1945.

The Dutch were very cruel to the people of Indonesia. The Dutch didn't give
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Some native communities did put up resistance against the Dutch, most notably the warrior tribes on the island of Java. Because of fierce resistance here, the Dutch did not completely gain control over this island until 1830, and only had rice grown on it to feed workers on other islands. Though there were some upsides to the whole ordeal. Dutch colonialism did improve native's healthcare and education. It also modernized the economy of the colony and provided opportunity to its population. There were flows of new ideas and enlightenment from the West, which changed the local's perspective.
Western ideology which improved women's status are also few of these colonization's benefit.
“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world.” This was said by Sukarno, an Indonesian nationalist who eventually became Indonesia's first president. Lots of people from Indonesia disliked the rule of the Dutch, but there are no quotes from the people of this

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