why after over 300 years of dutch rule, contrary to other former colonies, Indonesia neither has significant leftovers of dutch culture nor is the dutch language spoken anywhere.

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why after over 300 years of dutch rule, contrary to other former colonies, Indonesia neither has significant leftovers of dutch culture nor is the dutch language spoken anywhere.

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Hey a weird question I’m qualified for. My family is mixed Indonesian and Dutch but we look passably “white”. This is the primary reason why we speak Dutch. The Dutch did want to interact with the local population in Indonesia but not too much. They wanted intermediaries from mixed families, and being 1/4 Dutch got my family the job. My great grandmother spoke Dutch to the Dutch plantation owners and traders, and Her native languages to everyone else. The civil war in Indonesia was very culturally divided and very brutal, and everyone who spoke Dutch/Indonesian was essentially stuck in the middle.

My family fled to other dutch colonies as they were not accepted anywhere in the Netherlands, nor Indonesia, so we ended up in the Caribbean.