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Indonesia
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Nineteenth-century Indonesia experienced not only the
replacement of company rule by Dutch government rule but
also the
complete transformation of Java into a colonial society
and the
successful extension of colonial rule to Sumatra and the
eastern
archipelago. The modern state of Indonesia is in a real
sense a
nineteenth-century creation. It was during this century
that most
of its boundaries were defined and a process of generally
exploitative political, military, and economic integration
begun.
Some analysts, such as Benedict R.O'G. Anderson, argue
that the New
Order state of Suharto is a direct descendant of the Dutch
colonial
state, with similar objectives as summarized in the Dutch
phrase
rust en orde (tranquillity and order). There was,
at least,
a natural historical continuity between the Dutch colonial
and
modern Indonesian state
(see The New Order under Suharto
, this
ch.).
Data as of November 1992
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