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.

Question

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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Answer 1

Instead of promoting dutch language, they promoted Indonesian language (based on Malay) for communication between at least 10 major language speakers in Indonesia (from total 727 local languages).

Later on, this policy helped on forming Indonesia as a country.