Re: [mediacare] Re: VOC perusahaan dagang atau penjajah?
by Jingjing Arab
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THE BEGINNING OF DUTCH COLONIALISM
Meanwhile, the Dutch had started their quest for Indonesian spices to sell on the European market at big profit. For the purpose of more efficient and better organized merchant trade they established the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1602. To protect the merchant fleet from frequent pirate attacks on the high seas, Dutch warships were ordered to accompany it.
After nationalization of the VOC in 1799, the Dutch Government had a firm grip on the vital territories of the country. People in those territories were forced to surrender their agricultural produce to the Dutch merchants. He developed the political power of the state and was a keen patron of the arts and culture. In 1633 he introduces the Islamic Javanese calendar.
Sultan Agung was a fierce enemy of the Dutch. In 1629 he sent his troops to attack Batavia, but they were repulsed by troops of Governor General Jan Pieterszoon Coen.
After the seizure of Ambon in the Moluccas in 1605 and Banda Island in 1623, the Dutch secured the trade monopoly of the spice islands. A policy of ruthless exploitation by "divide and rule" tactics was carried out. In this way indigenous inter-island trade, like that between Makassar, Aceh, Mataram and Banten, as well as overseas trade, was gradually paralyzed. Indonesia was reduced to an agricultural country to supply European markets. At the same time, the Dutch adopted a so-called open-door policy toward the Chinese in order that they could serve as middlemen in their trade with Indonesia.
Sultan Hasanuddin of Goa waged a war against the Dutch in 1666. But was defeated and Goa became a vassal state of the VOC under the treaty of Bunggaya 1667. Prince Trunojoyo of Madura also fought the Dutch. He was defeated and killed in 1680.
To reinforce their spice monopoly in the Moluccas, the Dutch undertook their notorious Hongi expeditions, whereby they burned down the clove gardens of the people in an effort to eliminate overproduction, which brought down the prices of cloves on the European markets. In these outrageous expeditions countless atrocities were committed against people who defended their crops.
In 1740 the Dutch suppressed a rebellion in Jakarta that was sparked by dissatisfied Chinese, who were later joined by Indonesians. Ten thousand Chinese were massacred.
The Kingdom of Mataram began to see its downfall after it was divided by the VOC into the Principalities of Yogyakarta and Surakarta. However, mismanagement and corruption forced the VOC into bankruptcy and on December 31, 1799, all its territories in Indonesia were taken over by the Dutch Administration in Batavia.
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Ida,
Korupsi adalah kejahatan terkutuk. Bila ada yang mengatakan bahwa Indonesia menduduki tempat keluarga wahid negara-negera terkorup di dunia., itu suatu kenyataan. Apakah kaum koruptor Indonesia perlu dibela, kalau Anda sendiri bukan koruptor?
Menghadapi pertanyaan yang Anda kemukakan saya kira akan bisa dijawab sbb: It's a fact, however I am not a corruptor, but a victim among millions and millions of ordinary Indonesians, the corruptors are the indonesian politicans and government officials in all elvel of the administration. Would you like to support the fight of our people struggle against corruption and injustice perpetrated by the Indonesian authorities?
Mengenai kolonialisme Belanda selama 350 penjajahan, saya kira ada beberapa hal yang barangkali perlu diperhatikan ialah bahwa selama penjajahan tsb tidak pernah ada pembunuhan masal di seluruh Indonesias dalam waktu singkat seperti apa yang dilakukan oleh orang Indonesia sendiri pada tahun 1965/1966 dimana menelan kurang lebih satu juta manusia disembelih. Ratusan ribu manusia dipenjarakan bertahun-tahun tanpa pengadilan membuktikan kesalahan yang dilakukan oleh mereka yang dipenjarakan.
Belanda juga melarang PKI dan memenjarakan anggota-anggota PKI termasuk mereka yang berani menyatakan Nederlands Indie [Indonesia] harus merekda, tetapi kalau dibandingkan barangkali dalam pengertian istilah "kemanusiaan" ada perbedaan. Mereka yang ditawan tidak dipukul, harta kekayaan mereka tidak disita. Soekarno maupun Hatta sendiri dipenjarakan dan diasingkan ke tempat pembuangan tanpa ditampar dan ditendang bagaikan binatang oleh polisi atau tentara Belanda seperti apa yang dilakukan oleh TNI terhadap orang-orang Indonesia beranggatoann PKI atau simpatisan paham partai tsb. Mereka yang akan dibuang ke Boven Digul ditanya apakah keluarga mau turut, sedangkan yang dibuang ke pulau Buru oleh milter Indonesia diangkut tanpa diberitahukan kepada keluarga oleh pihak berkuasa dimana suami, isteri atau ibu, bapak etc berada. Tau sudah muncul di pulau Buru.
Pada zaman kolonial Belanda ada pembajakan kapal perang [destroyer] Belanda, namanya "De Zeven Provincie" dari pangkalan di Surabya, para pelaut Indonesia maupun Belanda tidak ada yang dihukum mati gantung atau hukum penjara betrahun-tahun tanpa proses hukum melalui pengadilan.
Contoh-contoh diatas ini bukan maksud untuk membenarkan kolonialisme tetapi sebagai catatan pinggiran terhadap komentar Anda bahwa penguasa negara Jahat di Indonesia belajar dari Belanda.
Salam dan hormat,
