How Indonesia Gained Independence
The Republic of Indonesia is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. The country consists of 17,508 islands, of which nine are permanently inhabited. Indonesia gained its independence from the Netherlands on 17 August 1945.
The process of gaining independence from the Dutch was long and difficult. The Dutch colonization of Indonesia began in the early seventeenth century. In the early nineteenth century, the Netherlands began to industrialize and needed new sources of raw materials …