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from the perspective of indonesians, it's generally thought that dutch has colonized indie for 300 years, however since the ruthless VOC is a company, I don't think it represented government of nederlands. that's why in many british colonies, the colonization was much more civilized because the government also responsible for economic development of their colonies. some historians said, the true colonization of indie began when kingdom of nederlands overtook indie from VOC