cultuurstelsel
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compound of cultuur (“cultivation, culture”) + stelsel (“system”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
cultuurstelsel n
- (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[edit]
- → Indonesian: cultuurstelsel
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch cultuurstelsel (literally “cultivation system”), from Dutch cultuur (“culture”) + stelsel (“system”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cultuurstelsel
- A Dutch East Indies government policy to allocate rural land for export crops from 1830 to c.1870.
Synonyms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “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.
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