cultuurstelsel

Dutch

Etymology

Compound of cultuur (“cultivation, culture”) +‎ stelsel (“system”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʏlˈtyːrˌstɛl.səl/

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• Hyphenation: cul‧tuur‧stel‧sel

Proper noun

cultuurstelsel n

1. (historical) A policy of allocating (nominally) 20% of agricultural land in the Dutch East Indies to export crops, imposed by the Dutch government as a type of lease, operating from 1830 until the 1870s for most products and until the early twentieth century for coffee; the system was widely abused leading to much higher land use for export crops.

Descendants

• → Indonesian: cultuurstelsel

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch cultuurstelsel (literally “cultivation system”), from Dutch cultuur (“culture”) + stelsel (“system”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊltʊrstɛlsəl/
• Hyphenation: cul‧tuur‧stel‧sel

Noun

cultuurstelsel

1. A Dutch East Indies government policy to allocate rural land for export crops from 1830 to c.1870.

Synonyms

• tanam paksa

Further reading

• “cultuurstelsel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.