ABSTRACT
Of the many major wars waged by the Netherlands in the Indonesian archipelago, the Java War (1825–1830) claimed the largest number of victims: an estimated 200,000 dead on the Javanese side, most of them from starvation and exhaustion, and 8,000 European and 7,000 soldiers from the archipelago on the Dutch side. After the defeat of the Javanese aristocracy and farmers, King William i was able to introduce the Culture System of forced production of export crops. This became, as mentioned, a disaster for the peasants.
