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  5.  @whitezombie10  When experiencing a financial crisis due to the war in Europe, in order to nourish its economy, the Dutch government appointed Johannes van den Bosch to serve as governor general in the Dutch East Indies (1830-1833). Just moments after arriving in Batavia, van den Bosch immediately implemented the cultuurstelsel system. In implementing this system of forced cultivation, he appointed the Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij (NHM), a trading company founded by the King of the Netherlands in 1824, after the bankruptcy of the VOC. Until now, the NHM building still stands firmly in the Jakarta city area, not far from Beos Train Station. Until the 1960s, the area where this magnificent building stood was called the factori, the folk name for the NHM. This giant company has the privilege of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to transport and sell Indonesian crops, most of which come from the forced cultivation system. With this system, the colonial government was very easy and cheap to obtain the desired crops to be sold on the world market. Meanwhile, those who do not own land are required to do forced labor for 60 days a year. According to the provisions, people are required to plant one-fifth of their land with plants that can be sold abroad. There are many abuses committed by corrupt officials in its implementation. As the people are required to plant a third or even half of their land with plants that have been determined by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. With the politics of intimidation and violence, including blackmailing the people, the forced cultivation system gave many benefits to the people and the Netherlands. The royal treasury that had been extremely critical was quickly filling up. The Dutch economy is getting better and healthier. The prosperity of the Dutch people rapidly increased. Every year millions of guilders flow from wealthy Indonesia to the Netherlands. Even in 1832 and 1867 the profits obtained by the Dutch reached 967 million guilders. At that time the value of the guilder was very high, while the dollar had not dominated banking as it is now. For his services, the creator of the forced cultivation system, Johannes van den Bosch, received the title of nobility of graaf. However, the prosperity of the Netherlands was created with the lives, sweat, blood, and tears of the Indonesian people. The system of forced cultivation has resulted in a famine that has claimed the lives of thousands of people. In 1844 in the Cirebon area there was a famine that claimed thousands of people's lives and in 1848 the Demak area was attacked by a famine. Similarly, the famine in the Grobogan area, Central Java, in 1849 which reportedly claimed 9/10 of the total population. The population of Demak, which at that time numbered 336 thousand people, lived 120 thousand people. The number of victims was so large that the forced cultivation system was challenged by a number of Dutch people themselves. Among them are Douwes Dekker, assistant resident of Lebak, Banten, who uses the pseudonym Multatuli. His work Max Havelaar sharply criticized the cruelty of his people at that time. Previously, during the Governor General Marshal Herman Willem Daendels (1808-1811), every head of the people in West Java was ordered to plant and maintain 500 coffee trees. The harvest had to be sold to the Government of the Indies at a price of 10 guilders per quintal. Even though the market price is 10 times higher. Daendels expelled the Sultan of Banten because he could not gather a thousand people every day to work on the Anyer to Panarukan highway project. The sultan who opposed the Dutch because his people were forced to work in Ujung Kulon, which at that time became a hotbed of disease, was finally exiled. The palace was destroyed and we can still find the ruins to this day. According to historical records, more than a thousand people died and thousands more were injured as a result of Daendels' forced labor system, although the result can be enjoyed in the form of a 1,200 km long highway. The Dutch atrocities continued to be followed by Governor General Jan Pieterszoon Coen. Shortly after founding Batavia, in 1621 he exterminated the inhabitants of the island of Banda in the Moluccas. There are reports that on this island JP Coen has committed extraordinarily cruel killings and massacres. The Bandanese who did not die in the fight or were killed by VOC soldiers were transported to Batavia as slaves. According to historical records, until 1633 they were still chained as slaves. These Bandanese were placed in Kampung Banda(n), near Ancol, North Jakarta. While the Balinese who were transported to Batavia as slaves in 1683 numbered 13 thousand people.
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