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

Etymology

From Dutch cultuurstelsel (literally cultivation system), from Dutch cultuur (culture) + stelsel (system).

Noun

cultuurstelsel

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

Synonyms

  • tanam paksa

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