Coordinates: 2°00′S 118°00′E / 2.0°S 118.0°E / -2.0;
118.0The Dutch East Indies (or Netherlands East-Indies; Dutch:
Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda) was a Dutch colony
consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the
nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came
under the administration of the Dutch government in 1800.During the
19th century, the Dutch possessions and hegemony were expanded,
reaching their greatest territorial extent in the early 20th century.
The Dutch East Indies was one of the most valuable colonies under
European rule, and contributed to Dutch global prominence in spice and
cash crop trade in the 19th to early 20th century. The colonial social
order was based on rigid racial and social structures with a Dutch
elite living separate from but linked to their native subjects. The
term Indonesia came into use for the geographical location after 1880.
In the early 20th century, local intellectuals began developing the
concept of Indonesia as a nation state, and set the stage for an
independence movement.Japan's World War II occupation dismantled much
of the Dutch colonial state and economy. Following the Japanese
surrender in August 1945, Indonesian nationalists declared
independence which they fought to secure during the subsequent
Indonesian National Revolution. The Netherlands formally recognized
Indonesian sovereignty at the 1949 Dutchâ€"Indonesian Round Table
Conference with the exception of the Netherlands New Guinea (Western
New Guinea), which was ceded to Indonesia 14 years later in 1963 under
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