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Dutch Leaders Catch Diponegoro, Painting by Raden Saleh

Indonesia is now a free country, but 180 years ago it was not free. It was in the hands of the Dutch. The Indonesian people were very poor because they had to pay a lot of money to the Dutch, and only a few Indonesians were able to go to school. Because of these things, most of the kings of Java and of th...