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1509 Portuguese came to Indonesia to monopoly the spices

and Dutch came along at 1595 to make the Portuguese leave and colonized Indonesia for almost 400years,,but thanks to some of Japanese soldier that came and help Indonesia fight for freedom even though some of communist Japan killing some off Indonesian too,,,MERDEKA!!

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About 350 years.

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