Tuesday 20 February The image of control was always an illusion, but one to which the Dutch held strongly. Sukarno, like many others, was arrested and exiled for refusing to cooperate with the Dutch authorities. Even successful indigenous-run businesses such as Three Balls tended to be eclipsed by those of Chinese merchants, who came to dominate the kretek and batik industries, since the economic and political system created by the Dutch encouraged the Chinese to fulfil the role of a merchant middle class. Dahlan married the daughter of the head of the Great Mosque in Yogyakarta.
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