Brief Info : Yamashita Treasure, VOC and Shipwrecks.
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The Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) represented the Dutch rule in the Dutch East Indies between 1610 and the recognition of the independence of Indonesia in 1945 (almost 3 and half century). Then Indonesia gain it's independence at 1945.
Then by the beginning of 20th century, the youth began to realize the meaning of unity, since the colonialist unceasingly carried out the divide et imperia (divide and conquer) politics, which made one group of people hate another group's members. It didn't happen sooner because up until 1901 the local people could not receive Western education. Since then, Indonesian people wished to have their own country which came true in August 17th, 1945. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) had been set up in the early seventeenth century to maximize Dutch trade interests in the Malay archipelago. By 1700, a colonial pattern was well established; the (VOC) had grown to become a state within a state and the dominant power in the archipelago. Its method of indirect rule was to survive it. After the bankrupt company was liquidated on 1 January 1800, its territorial possessions became the property of the Dutch government.
