How the Dutch Controlled Indonesia (1816 – 1942) – A History of the Dutch East Indies

You did a nice job on this! Will watch the other documentries , you made/make!
BTW; Can you provide some info on former Dutch ex-Waffen SS soldiers which were captured after the war and send to fight in Indonesia during the Politionele Acties for the Dutch?

Netherland is mean nothing for us.

GEKOLONISEERD

40 to 80.... should be 40 to 60% I guess

Good video. Obviously ~150 years of history is very hard to compress to 12 minutes. But an important missing impression here is that, there was never a united "Indonesia" before 1945. The entire idea of the Indonesian nation state was in fact a modern invention, nobody in the 1800s called themselves as such, nor do they speak the language "Indonesian". They see themselves along ethnic and religous lines. Secondly, the entire archipelago was divided to numerous kingdoms and fiefdoms. Feudalism is the dominant form of political organization. With that also even before the Dutch came to trade, Javan, Sumatran, Makassan kingdoms and princes (among others) fought each other for dominance. But not a single kingdom managed to unify the archipelago under direct administration. This allows the Netherlands to conquer the vast islands: they did not fight a united people. They conquered numerous, smaller kingdoms, one by one. In modern day Indonesia children are taught in schools (myself included) the Dutch "divided and conquered" their way to success. As I read more as I get older, this is not true (but I understand why because we need to build a national identity). Furthermore, the strong aristrocratic (but divided) rule of the local sultans and princes allowed for an efficient administration, like you said, where the existing feudal order is reinforced by local rulers, now with Dutch guns, coordinated under a Dutch governor-general. "Ethical" policy only applies for the local aristrocratic elite. There is no general welfare. This pattern of colonial rule can also be seen in colonial British India, and Malaysia next door. I think this is important for people, especially the formerly colonized people to understand that colonialism is'nt enabled by race: it is emboldend feudal rule by the aristocratic class. But feudal rule was nothing to what is often overlooked: the suffering of my countrymen during WW2. John W. Dower cited the 1947 UN report that estimated 4 million famine and forced labor dead during the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia. 4 million, In the years 1942 -45. This immense suffering forged an strong sense of social solidarity, and immense distrust and skepticism of the old aristocrats. Like the Dutch, the fascist Japanese used local rulers as an extension of their rule. In a relatively short period of time, a national conciousness of a new nation was born. The thirst and desire for freedom was so strong that as fascist Japan retreated, That youth milita groups kidnapped Sukarno (most respected and senior nationalist figure that prefers gradual and diplomatic independence) and threatened him to proclaim Independence without anyone's permission, or else. It was also clear that the Dutch wanted to rule over us again, but it was not without the fanatical resistance of the Indonesian revolution like the battle of Surabaya '45 that the international community cared and the allies to force the Dutch to stop their aggression, largely because the Dutch was using their Marshall plan funds for the war. The bloody Indonesian revolution allowed for a new order to be born out of the ruins of the old : no emperors, no queens, no sultans (except for Jogjakarta which supported the Republic during the revolution), all Dutch companies are nationalized, all Indo-Dutch are forced to return to the Netherlands. Today, the struggle for democracy is still on-going. Indonesians elected their first president directly only in 2004.


 Greetings from Jakarta. I've been to the Hague and Amsterdam. Lovely places.

Zal voor de verandering is in NL’s reageren. Dit was een goede video, bedankt. Enige fout die je in mijn optiek maakte was de verhouding van Europese soldaten en Indo soldaten. Enig idee waar goede literatuur (gelieve online) over te vinden is over het Nederlands koloniaal verleden? Het is moeilijk om in zo’n lange geschiedenis echt een rode draad terug te vinden. Ik vind zelf de geografische/koloniale verschuivingen vooral van Nederland enorm interessant en hoe dat tot stand is gekomen. Heb jij enig idee? Gegroet van een mede geschiedenis freak

Amazing again moving onto Indonesia independence now 😉 and is in my top 5 fav channels 👍🏻 ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

You should explain nederland indies rules that pribumi is third class in all of sector and salary, thats why they want to free from dutch colonialism. You should explain "dog and pribumi not to enter this room/building".

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I remembered when i was in Senior High, i was in public transportation in Parapat. And among us there was 2 white peolple. One local guy was asked me to ask the white of where they came from. I asked them and they said they are from dutch or in Indonesia we call Bolanda. People stopped the car and ask them to go out from the car just as they knew they are dutch.... No more occupation no matter what the form is...

we will never forget forever about the VOC

I come from Riau...
You may come to Siak empire ( Siak-Riau ). We have a sultan..his name is Sultan syarif qasim

Keep it up Stefan! I remember watching this again!

Holland is a former country that colonized Indonesia for 300 years. Many of my family used to die because of that I swear one day I and the people will get revenge. and destroy it. just saying sorry is not enough .
Suck fack . I hope War again .

Stefan how did the VOC become bankrupt? I mean it's like hard to believe as they were a cash cow?

Urgh you copy crash course (John Green)

I kinda sad the dutch didn't convert us into Christianity. You know why?

Keep on track dude, reveal the history by objective opinion.

Please make a video about the movie Max Havelaar..

The dutch slavery is more cruel than SS

Every time I watch one of these history videos about terrible atrocities and governments over stepping there bounds it always seems to come back to censorship in some way. I hope we learn from our mistakes one day.

ACEH 🔥

I from Indonesia:O

I wonder why when Germany invaded and ruled the Nethelands in 1939 why East Indies still rules as usual by themselves until 1942? Did Hitler had hasn't any interest to them? Or maybe there are other things I am yet to know?

why did he skip the liberal system

kalian sungguh kejam

This is so goooooood

I was wondering if you could possibly find the history of "afdeeling padanglawas" from the begining of dutch military looking for Tuanku Tambusi who was the troop in chief of Tuanku Imam Bonjol . Thanks a lot, your streaming is really usefull for us in Indonesia sir

for this kind of quality content you definitely deserve more SUBSCRIBER!!

Now Indonesia and the Netherlands are friends 🇮🇩🤝🇳🇱

in that time, dutch was a great country, dutchman like germany, not like england. based on my grandfa story, old generation of dutch were evil, and many educated dutch was good with Indonesian...

Because they just going dutch..
Yep, that is what happen..

Indonesia as a nation is a serendipity of Dutch colonialism..
If not because of the same fate our ancestor endure then there will be hundreds of nations in what is now Indonesia..
And those nation might have many rivalry over many issue..

The Dutch flag is dark red and the Indonesians tore the blue, so the red is the same

Another interesting moment. It was famous Russian botanist A. N. Krasnov and he did travel to Dutch colonies during 1892. He described in his book that it was forbidden for all local people even for servants, stuarts, rulers to study Dutch language. In case, that Dutch didn't want to spread any knowledge or any important information about yourself. And it was a big difference from English colonies. Is it really was like that how he disribed? Thank you.

And now it's rare for Indonesians of Dutch descent

I have a question but will u respond asp bc I need help with my hw my question is “How did Imperialism change Indonesia”? I would appreciate if u could help
Me

Imagine the colonial of the past....
Indonesians have accepted the doctrine not to trust anyone after independence........
Actually we learned something like "Don't want to be colonized by other people"....

It's actually very scary to have to remember the history of colonization by other countries such as Portugese, UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Japan!
Colonized by 5 countries in history! 🤧

The Dutch were determined to develop the East Indies as they realized its potential but rebel Nationalists in that region seek to disrupt that, drive the civilized Dutch out and turn it into a Communist or Socialist state under Sukarno of PKI. Those people collaborated with the Japanese occupation. The concept of Indonesia was a byproduct of Axis powers comprising Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Jappan and enemy of peace. It was driven by Anti colonialist mindset and somewhat from National Socialism. Ideologies from the barbaric East and Fascist/National Socialist garbage.

Sounds very much like what WEF is doing to the world today especially USA, Canada, Australia/NZ. Every decision BAD for our economies, look at Sri Lanka, etc, destabilized by shutting down a prove perfect energy grid, how dare they, non-elected assholes interfere, take them all out, every BOD who practice HUBRIS. We know Klaus penetrated Justin Sinclair Trudeau,AntiChrist, Biden, Marcon, Juscinta, the list goes o, feels he owns governments, like an unelected Jewish Nazi WTF

How dutch controlled majapahit empire

Now the Dutch are getting colonial on their own farmers and people ,
a wef vassal state

Dutch government on Indonesia surrendered to Japan soldiers for only one week And Dutch government in Netherland surrendered to Hitler for only 3 days. So why didn't explain it too so we can appreciate to Mr. Hitler to occupied the Dutch so because of Hitler's role so Indonesian could expressed their independence status to Dutch. For Indonesian, Hitler is viewed as a hero.

the british established the british Commonwealth

Yep, "divide et impera". They didnt see the other as brothers and sisters anymore.
Pretty much what american has done to the arabs for their oil.

But i see the "how" here is about the "dutch" (when the major powers had gone).
I think, the more interesting part was the "how" about the "E.I.C (VOC)".
The time when there were several kingdoms here. Not just local authorities.
Oh, they were already having cannons back then by the way.

But again, in the end "divide et impera" worked pretty well like charm.

As an Indonesian what can one say but God bless America!

Indonesia tak akan ada tanpa peran penting belanda yang berhasil menaklukkan raja2 nusantara sehingga menjadi satu wilayah kolonial yang bernama hindia belanda...jadi menurutku yang berhasil menyatukan nusantara menjadi negara kesatuan indonesia adalah belanda.

please learn, Japan ww2 formed local military organizations and community institutions in the Dutch East Indies, (like: heiho, kyode be geugun(peta), putera, java hokokai, seinendan, jibakutai, tokubetsu kaisatsu tai) the aim of the propaganda was to hate the Dutch and fight the allies... so that when British troops entered the Dutch East Indies, they encountered resistance from local people who were affected by Japanese doctrine, which resulted in a period of bersiap and conflict with the Dutch,,
Local Military kyode be geugun (PETA) have 36000 soldiers, for fighting the dutc and Allied..