Just as in other parts of the archipelago, Aceh was forced into the Dutch East Indies later to become Indonesia.

ECONOMIST: Letters

When in the second world war the Japanese occupied the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, they were happy to drink Heineken beer.

ECONOMIST: Freddy Heineken

Japan, which in the 1940s sent soldiers off to conquer oilfields in the then Dutch East Indies, took a notoriously more acquisitive bent.

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But unlike East Timor a former Portuguese colony these other places are all part of the old Dutch East Indies, out of which Indonesia was born.

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Indonesia, it is argued, is an artificial construct, with a bewildering collection of languages, religions and ethnic groups whose only common denominator is that the jigsaw once made up the Dutch East Indies.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

Through historical examples including the Dutch East Indies Company and financial regulation passed in 1811 that clarified limited liability and democratized corporations, Shiller put the focus on Dodd-Frank and what it needs to accomplish.

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The museum said the blocks, which were about 12in (30cm) by 14in (35cm) had the letters "TJIPETIR", which was believed to be the name of a rubber plantation in the Dutch East Indies in the 19th Century.

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Some countries are based on language, some on ethnicity, some on religion: Indonesia is based on the principle, odd in the mouths of nationalists, that whatever was administered as the Dutch East Indies in the 19th and early 20th centuries is now Indonesia.

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Unlike East Timor, which was a former Portuguese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and has now won the right to independence, Aceh was long administered as a part of the Dutch East Indies before the entire archipelago, or most of it, became Indonesia in 1949.

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Accidents of colonial history Indonesia was the Dutch-run bit of the East Indies, Malaysia the British bit help explain the rows over territory and culture.

ECONOMIST: Discord across the Malacca strait

The Kennemerland, a Dutch East India Company merchant ship that was outward bound from Holland to the East Indies.

BBC: Drumbeg