How many countries were colonized by the Dutch in Indonesia?
The Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) was the first European power to colonize Indonesia in the early seventeenth century. The VOC was followed by the British, the French, and the Germans. Indonesia was jointly ruled by the Dutch and the British from 1815 to 1824, and was a Dutch colony from 1824 to 1945. Indonesia became an independent republic in 1945.
The Dutch colonized Indonesia for more than three centuries…