Indonesian Insurgency
Dec 22, 2020
1 minute
t the turn of the 20th century the Dutch East Indies (as Indonesia was known) remained a colonial outpost whose administrators grew wealthy trading in such goods as spices, coffee, sugar and other commodities. Amsterdam), but nationalist groups increasingly pressed for independence, their pleas turning to violence by mid-century.
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