Majority-Dutch Indonesia

Your challenge is to create a timeline in which the ethnic Dutch make up the majority of the population in Indonesia/Dutch East Indies with a POD earlier than 1900.
 
That's what the Dutch East India Company essentially did in the Moluccas in order to maintain a monopoly on spices. Thus genocide, unfortunately, is actually within the realm of possibilities.
The VOC's acts of genocide "only" killed several tens of thousands, not the tens of millions necessary for Indonesia to be majority-Dutch at any point after 1600.

The most plausible outcome I think is a massive Dutch nerf. Dutch East Indies consists only of Christmas Island, which ends up being majority-Dutch.
 

Albert.Nik

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I can think of two or three small to mid sized islands Dutch Majority if that is possible. Entire Indonesia is not easy. It is a significantly advanced and a dense population with good access to resources. Such Genocides of that magnitude would immediately be met with strong response by the international community even then. The nearest I can see in this regard is Indonesia being 10-15% or so Dutch by settling peacefully and building opportunities. Nothing else. I wonder if any sane empire would attempt suicide in this manner when it is absolutely unnecessary and illogical to do so.
 
I can think of two or three small to mid sized islands Dutch Majority if that is possible. Entire Indonesia is not easy. It is a significantly advanced and a dense population with good access to resources. Such Genocides of that magnitude would immediately be met with strong response by the international community even then. The nearest I can see in this regard is Indonesia being 10-15% or so Dutch by settling peacefully and building opportunities. Nothing else. I wonder if any sane empire would attempt suicide in this manner when it is absolutely unnecessary and illogical to do so.
Even then, you'd have to move at least half of the Dutch population to Indonesia.
 
Not happening,not to mention any genocide won't happen as it ruins the whole reason,Dutch were there in the first place profit.
 
At minimum you'd need to massively nerf the extent of the DEI, and change their purpose. Perhaps by only keeping western Papua, and running it as a settler colony (perhaps even outlawing immigration and reclaiming less land as to force more people to move to the colony) they could edge out the native Papuans for a majority.
 
I wonder how much the Dutch language and Christian religion could have spread if they were pushed more.
 
Another factor to consider is climate which before modern medicine would have been a death trap for people from more temperate climes. If small Caribbean islands where the vast majority of the native population perished due to disease or violence couldn't become British or French majority, I don't see a much larger area whose population was still part of the Eurasian disease pool ruled by a much small European power achieving that result.
 
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