EVENT INFORMATION

31
December
1830

Cultivation System begins as a program of colonial extraction

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📅 31 December 1830 📍

After the Java War drained colonial finances, the Dutch administration under Governor-General Johannes van den Bosch introduced the Cultivation System. Villages were compelled to devote land or labor to export crops, with local rulers and officials helping enforce quotas. The system turned Java’s agrarian production into a state revenue stream and contributed to hardship, food insecurity, and later public criticism.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Johannes van den Bosch

Javanese farmers

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Dutch East Indies government

village authorities