US$31 trillion in wealth extracted from Indonesia during Dutch colonial rule: President Prabowo
Magda Gheorghiță
The former general and defence minister, now president, cited the figure while using the historical context to make the case for increased national defence spending. JAKARTA: US$31 trillion - that’s the amount of wealth that Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto claimed the Netherlands had extracted from Indonesia during its colonial rule over the archipelago, as he used the historical context to justify increased investment in national defence. He added that the figure is nearly 18 times
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