1509 Portuguese came to Indonesia to monopoly the spices
and Dutch came along at 1595 to make the Portuguese leave and colonized Indonesia for almost 400years,,but thanks to some of Japanese soldier that came and help Indonesia fight for freedom even though some of communist Japan killing some off Indonesian too,,,MERDEKA!!
About 350 years.
Maluku
The British, the Dutch and the Portuguese,
the Portuguese discovered Indonesia in 1512, no the dutch. Indonesia was colonized by the dutch in 1603 to 1942. Indonesia was colonized by the dutch for about 300 years!
First the Dutch came as merchant in Maluku but conquer it after with devide et impera way between monarchs that day, and after set a stronghold in Java island name Jayakarta , nowadays Jakarta, the Dutch began to spread the power until nowadays Indonesia. All Indonesia region were Dutch occupied country before regain its independence in 1945 unite as one country, Indonesia
1949, it used to be a Dutch Colony.
The Dutch actress, Laura Gemser was born in the year 1950. Even though she is a Dutch, she was born in Java, Indonesia and now her current citizenship is Italian.
dutch..he was from belgium
The first European power to colonize Indonesia were the Dutch rulers who came from netherlands. The Indonesian islands were then knoen as the Dutch East Indies. At first, the Dutch East Indies were controled by the Dutch East Indoa Company. But after the breakdown of the company, the Netherlands' government took the direct control of the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch rule over the Indonesia ended during the World War II when the Japanese took the control of the East Indies. At this time, they actually became known as Indonesia. The British were also looking at for colonizing the East Indies.
The dutch used their language.
Indonesia
Indonesia was named 'Nederlands Indië' when they were ruled by the Dutch. 'Nederlands Indië' is in English 'Dutch India'.
Japan didn't colonized Indonesia. It was the Dutch (Netherlands) who colonized the country in Indonesia.