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