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Does Indonesia retain any Dutch culture?


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Does Indonesia retain any Dutch culture?

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Yes, Some of Indonesian dialect language still contain dutch language.
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Yes, some of Indonesian vocabularies are actually Dutch e.g.
Kantor (office), Slordeg (sloppy), Bedinde (maid), Blamwier (fire fighter), Tee erg, Tot Zien ... spoken by some Indonesians.

The architecture of some places in Indonesia still retain Ducth culture especially in the affluent neighbourhood such as Menteng Jakarta, Ijen in Malang, Darmo in Surabaya, Bandung

Some communities in Ambon and North Sulawesi still wear the colonial attire in white cotton/satin.

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To some extent yes. Some Dutch vocabularies are still used, even though they are slowly replaced by English terms nowadays.

However, the most important one is Indonesian legal system. It is derived from Dutch legal system which in turn based on Napoleonic code.
Yes.

There are lots of Indonesians who are mixed of both Native and Dutch. And they speak mainly Bahasa Indonesia.

But Dutch culture is still retained but not popular though.

Bahasa Indonesia include some of Dutch words into their language.
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