Wanneer is de slavernij in Indonesië afgeschaft?

Everyone knows that the Dutch had a slave trade in Suriname and the carribean. But in Asia they did the exact same thing, and on the same scale. In this episode historian Wim Manuhutu (Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam) tells you how enslaved people were essential to the Dutch colonies in Asia. Everywhere in Indonesia they worked on the plantations, mines and in households. But they were also detached for the construction of fortresses and roads. This lasted for hundreds of years: from the days of the VOC until the time in which the colony was officially called the Dutch East Indies. And even though the Netherlands officially abolished slavery in the mid nineteenth century, it still persisted until the twentieth century in some places of the Dutch East Indies before it finally ended.