Indonesia’s butterfly effect on human history 

In retrospect I wish I’d mentioned a few more things in this video. It’s a bit of a hodgepodge of information I had complied for random facts videos and later realized I had enough to turn it into an entire Indonesian video. With little more thought or research I unintentionally covered mostly topics that related to the western world. If you scroll through the comments you’ll see tons of other examples of how Indonesia has influenced the world. I plan to make more videos on Indonesia and it’s surrounding area. This was in a way my entry point into learning more and covering more of the region. Edit: spelling

Indonesia also indirectly influenced Belgian independence. The Java War of 1825 - 1830 drained Dutch finances so that they were unable to maintain their colony in Belgium.

Indonesia is like that land in fantasy universe where no one knows its existence but bring this cataclysmic event in your continent

Indonesians medieval history also affected the merchant ships worldwide. It was a great local story, that the merchants never tell to the west

As an indonesian, all of this facts are true and well researched. You even included the how "unique" dutch colonialism compared to the spanish/ Portuguese one. Especially their rather opportunistic strategy. It's a fact that many of indonesian don't even know, but if you study indonesian history, that is true, and even contributed to the preservation of some local religions (bali for example)

Would you like to include Max Havelaar? The book that dubbed the book that killed colonialism

Indonesia also impacted my family. My uncle went to Indonesia 8 or 9 years ago and is now married 4 or 5 years to someone from Indonesia

Indonesia doesn't need any fancy nuclear nor ballistic missile for WW3, they simply exist as a world's reset button

As a Dutch, I feel deep connection to Indonesian history and culture. In the past, the World just simply called these archipelago as "part of India" or "East Indies". And in the any ancient and medieval history, Indonesian people seems like any remote area for many big societies. Yet I believe Indonesians had part of world societies without we realized it. It's because of toponym. For Javanese people, Indonesian archipelago was called as "Nusantara", and the various ethnic groups living there didn't have any precise name for it. For Malay people, Sumatra was called "Suvarnadvipa". For Sundanese, Sumatra was called "Srivijaya". And also for any world explorer. For Greek people, some of these islands (probably Sumatra and Java) was called "Chryse and Argyre", and "Chersonese Aurea" for Malay Peninsular area. For Arab and Persian, they called Sumatra as "Zabaj" and "Siribuza". For Cambodian, they called Java as "Javadvipa". Medieval Japanese called Borneo as "The Southern Forest Island". During the Portuguese and Spanish colonial, Japanese also called Maluku as "Oriental Spice Islands". In Latin, Sumatra was called "Gamispola". Some of European explorers wrongly named these place by their native tongue like "Camotora" (Portuguese for Sumatra), "Borneo" (British for Brunei - and now for all entire Borneo island), "Celebes" (French for Sulawesi, adopted by the Dutch), "Mollucas" (British for Maluku, the Dutch named it "Molukkers"), etc. And I believe there are more names that refer to Indonesian in the ancient documents and accounts. For the native Indonesians in the ancient back then, they didn't need anymore land outside Indonesia like Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, or Europe. They already lived in the heaven-like place. That's why they also seems like remote people. But the big kingdoms already had bilateral relationship with both the entire archipelago and outside archipelago.

As Indonesian, I apologize for what most of our volcanoes did in the past 🙏

Indonesia also had some influences in geo-politic during cold war, which they are one of countries who initiated Non-Aligned Movement.

History of Indonesia (Revamp) BCE/SM Gunung padang 10000 BC-3000BC Gowa pawon kingdom 9500 BC-100 Paguyangan kingdom 7000 BC-170 Cibedug kingdom 3300 BC-140 Cipari kingdom 1000 BC-500 BC Pasir angin kingdom 800 BC-400 BC Caragin kurung kingdom 200 BC-150 Buni kingdom 200 BC-100 AD/Sesudah masehi Ujung kulon kingdom 100-151 Teluk lada/Salakanagara kingdom 78-362 Tarumanagara kingdom 368-699 Indra prahasta kingdom 398-408 Kuta martapura kingdom 400-1635 Galuh kingdom 670-1482 Srivijaya kingdom 670-1257 p Mataram kingdom 732-1016 Dharmasraya kingdom 1183-1347 Aru kingdom 1225-1613 Samudra pasai kingdom 1267-1521 Kuta Kertanegara kingdom 1300-present Gowa-tallo sultane 1320-1905 Button sultane 1332-1960 Pagaruyung kingdom 1347-1825 Sunda kingdom 932-1572 Bali kingdom 978-1908 Kediri kingdom1045-1222 Singhasari kingdom 1222-1292 Majapahit kingdom 1292-1527 Ternate sultane 1401-present Cirebon sultane 1430-1677 Tidore sultane1401-present Demak sultane 1475-1568 Aceh sultane(Ottoman) 1406-1903 Gowa sultane 1320-1905 Pajajaran kingdom 1482-1579 Blambangan kingdom 1489-1777 Banjar sultane1530-1905 Banten sultane 1507-1813 Mataram sultane1506-1755 Portugis colonies 1509-1574 Spain colonies 1521-1529 Ducth East Indies Company 1610-1799 Dutch East Indies (French Colony) 1806-1811 Dutch East Indies (British Empire Colony) 1811-1815 Dutch East Indies 1815-1942 Dutch East Indies (japanese Empire) 1942-1945 Republic of Indonesia 1945-1949 United States of Indonesia 1949-1950 Republic of Indonesia (old orde) 1950-1966 Republic of Indonesia (new orde) 1966-1998 Republic of Indonesia 1998-Present All is History of Indonesia Old orde the leadership of Soekarno and Bung Hatta New orde the lardership of Soeharo and Timor Leste is part of Indonesia First kingdom:Salakanagara kingdom Last kingdom:Majapahit kingdom First sultane:Ternate sultane Last sultane:mataram sultane First Colony:Dutch Empire Last Colony:Japanese Empire President 1.Ir.h kuesno sosrodiharjo(soekarno) 2.syafrudin Prawiranegara 3.MR.assat 4.jendral besar TNI H.M Soeharto 5.ir.h B.J Habibie 6.Ir.h Abdulrahman Wahid 7.Ir. Megawati Soekarnoputri 8.jendral TNI prof.Susilo bambang yudhoyono 9.Prof.Ir.h joko widodo

The fact that they discovered Madagascar is crazy 😃😃

There's also the fact that due to the bad weather caused bu the Mount Tambora eruption, Napoleon lost the battle of waterloo because the bad weather made the terrain of Waterloo to be muddy.

Hi, thank you for making this great video. Greetings from Indonesia 🇮🇩

1:40 I also remember reading somewhere that Napoleon lost a key battle due to the weather being influenced by a volcano eruption in Indonesia

Looking at this video over a plate with nasi goreng, sambal oelek, saté ajam, kroepoek, seroendeng, atjar tjampoer and koe loe kai, makes me realize Indonesia shaped more than what you mentioned... Going to get some spekkoek, vanilla ice, and java coffee at the toko for tomorrow to go after the leftovers. Thanks for another great video!

Indeed Indonesia is very unique and totally underestimated. Its blessed with stunning nature of all varieties. Its so rich in minerals and metals, oil, gas, you name it. I emigrate 20 years ago to indonesia, I found my luck here and will continue to contribute my knowledge to help its kind people and the country itself.

You're telling me Krakatoa eruption in 1883 indirectly caused the creation of "Still a better love story than Twilight" meme?

My great grandparents came in the 1930's from Indonesia to Suriname.

My favourite neighbour! I have spent years on and off over my life in Indonesia and I absolutely love the people, country, cultures, and especially the food!

Indonesia's archipelago is unique and beautifully formed from east to west. Stunning

Indonesia has anknown the ships history, probably the oldest trade by sea on earth.. China start sea armada on 10th AD.. Borobudur shown ships pictures build on 7-8th AD.. This is truly butterfly effect..

It's always the foreigner that had the passion to pursue knowledge and the origin of something which lead to the statement of, 'they know us more than we know ourself" Great work of you kind sir

In addition to Mount Tambora, it sparks the birth of Christmas Carol 'Silent Night'

about Tambora, i want to add that: 1. she's the one that caused Battle of Waterloo went that way, so if u're a non French European just go there and give thanks to the Volcano for giving the world the year without summer that leads to the final defeat of Napoleon (YOU"RE WELCOME EUROPEAN LOL) 2. i want to add that ironically in a way she gave dutch independence so the dutch can take over the voc and colonize Indonesia.. many Indonesians don't know that VOC is the one colonize Indonesia before 1815, it's like let's say amazon or google colonize a country

should add enrique de malacca, a riau slave who worked as a navigator for ferdinand magelland and was probably the first human to circumnavigate the earth

Happy to hear about the exciting developments in your life! We appreciate the hard work you put into this content.

Long before any european sailor sailing the ocean, ancient sailor from modern indonesia had already sailing the world ocean except to three places, which is eastern and western arctic seas and antarctic sea Ancient indonesian sailors had developing navigation technique by reading the stars that still used until now, also had developing shipbuilding technology that gave birth to Djung Ship Djung ship are the type of ship specialy designed to sail far away from the coast. There are many class of djung ship. But, two of the most famous class are Djung Malay that developed by Srivijaya empire in sumatra and Djung Java that developed by Majapahit empire in java Djung Malay are the early design of Djung java and it's used both as cargo ship and warship. Unlike most european ship at the same time that have length up to 40 meters, Djung Malay have length up to 80 meters while Djung Java have length up to 150 meters. Both ship are considered as super difficult to sunk in which Djung Java is impossible to sunk. This due to wood material that used to build this two ship are known to this day due to it's hardness, which is iron wood, coconut wood and teak wood. They no using random wood of this three wood, instead they choose the old tree and hardest part of the tree to make the ship. There is no record that explain any Djung Java successfuly sunk or heavily damaged even by newly invented Canon. With Djung ship, ancient indonesian sailor had successfuly sailing to american continent (east, west, north, central and south coast except the arctic and antartic circle), euopean coast up to western france, mediteranean sea, brazilian coast, australian coast and japanese coast. If you look at temple ruin in java and sumatra, you will find reliefs resembling cultures, natures and plants from different continents From borobudur temple reliefs you can find north american cactus and native central american reliefs. There is also temple that resemble american pyramid, inca/mayan head statue and such Also, did you know that you can find many plants that native to south east asia grow in amazonian jungle such as banana? This type of south east asian plants that you can find in amazonian forest are the type of plants that can't survive the salt water. They will rot if submerged in salt water for a long time. So it's impossible for them to grow naturaly in amazon through ocean current. Means there is a contact between south east asia and amazonian kingdom(s)

And also, the experts says that The eruption of Mount Samalas in 1257 in lombok, Indonesia has caused a chain of events that resulted the black death plague in 1300s

Tya kindly. Appreciate your service and congrats on new family member 🤝.

Wow! I learned so much from this video! I admittedly know very little about Indonesia, but this gave me a great starting point. I didn’t know about the Toba eruption or the subsequent genetic bottleneck. Can’t wait to check out more of your channel. Congratulations on your newborn 😊

I'm an indonesian. One thing also to add is about the impact on research of evolution from darwin. If you search wallace line or alfred russel wallace, his observation include indonesia. I've read his book and if you guys intrested perhaps you can read it too!

There is some influence on some Western classical music as well, Debussy for example incorporated some of the style of Javanese Gamelan in his music after he listened to some of it during the Paris Exposition of 1889 which were brought in by the Dutch.

Indonesian Singaporean here ♥️ 🇮🇩🇸🇬 Very interesting video!!! thank you

Man I'm an Indonesian and first of all, I'm so thankful for this video I've just watched. We all learned at least a bit of our nation's history when we were younger but in my case this is like watching other nation's history. Everything's new, never heard of, and just beyond overlooked. Absolute top notch!

A new study posits that an 1815 Tambora eruption caused inclement weather that, according to some theories, led to Napoleon's defeat.

Can’t believe how big Indonesia is. It is the 4th largest country, largest archipelago, most populated island and largest Muslim country in population. I always hear of Philippines, Cambodia or Thailand but never Indonesia

The Dutch massacred the people of Banda Islands not because of England (at least, not directly), but because the inhabitants violated the Dutch self declared monopoly on nutmeg. Later on, after the Treaty of Breda, the Run island (spelled as "roon") was traded with England in exchange for a small Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in North America. Run island was not where the massacre were committed, it was an island where England established a fort and in constant fight with Dutch over their supremacy on Banda Islands.

Thanks for the content. I appreciate the vocals, very smooth and good cadence easy to listen to for someone with sensory processing needs, thanks :)

I recently learned about the rings of fire from a cartoon while I was watching with my little cousin. The cartoon was pretty intense at showing what kind of damage can happen because of it. I instantly searched if Indonesia is a part of it. I was relieved for a second cuz I couldn't find Indonesia.... TURNS OUT WE'RE BASICALLY ONE HUGE LINE OF IT

Amazing video!

the archipelago of Indonesia will make a beauty RPG style game map, with all terrain represented.

I really appreciate the narration, you don’t over enunciate, and it’s very understandable. Some people make videos where the history facts are interesting but I can’t get past the voice sounding professorial.

Great video, especially on the thorough research thing about Indonesia. Thanks anyway for posting this one.

Still a supporter 💪🏻 amazing video keep up the amazing work 💫

You might have mentioned that many spices were first developed in Indonesia by Indonesians and then traded to the rest of the world long before the Dutch eventually gained control of this trade.

Great video, you gave a clear explanations and easy to digest language for my nieces even to understand this topics, that usually boring to regular folks. Also, Indonesians has a popular songs, a somewhat national song, that explains our ancestors as a sailors who wanders the oceans and gliding through waves.

There is a story that you missed from Roon Island and this is very surprising, in 1667 the Dutch and English exchanged favors between Roon Island and Neiw Amsterdam which is now called Manhattan. At that time, Run/Rhun/Roon Island, which only covered an area of ​​600 hectares, was exchanged for the American Manhattan Island because Rhun Island had so many nutmeg plants, where at that time the nutmegs seeds much more expensive than gold.

it always nice to hear a story about my country from foreign perspective thanks for such a great video

t There was an unusual amount of rain which fell during the important two days previous, and during the of the battle of Waterloo in the Summer of 1815 affecting troop movement, and the time of engagement on the morning of June 18th. (11:30 a.m. instead of 8 a.m., Napoleon waited for the ground to dry so as too more easily move his cannon to the front and initiate the battle) The extra 3.5 hours also would have given Napoleon time to defeat Wellington before the Prussians arrived in late afternoon.

We have oil China: "It's not yours, it's ours." Australia: "It seems you need freedom."

This is amazing 🤩

I did not expect to hear my state shouted out in a video about Indonesia! So cool! Go Hoosiers!

Great video. And a fresh topic too!

Indonesia also has a tiny navy considering how massive its patrol needs are. Unfortunately the PRC have completely ignored the rulings on the laws of the seas regarding South China Sea.

Mount tambora also vanished closest kingdom, the Dompu Kingdom.

Mongols : **Tried to conquer another land across the ocean** Mongols : We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled.

❗Theres a novel written by Pramoedya Ananta Toer-a big novelist in Indonesian literature-that told the story about how lives going on in this region(Hindia) right into the creation of the nation called "Indonesia." An epic novel that translated to many languages. You can buy and read that awesome novels called "Buru quartet; 1.This earth of mankind, 2.Child of all nations, 3.Footsteps, and 4.House of glass" 👍🏻

you forgot before indonesia exist there many kingdom and sultanate spread in every island in indonesia before get all conquered by dutch until 1800....the tactic they use are devide at impera

Another one is when indonesia was a dutch colony we had this thingy the dutch made called dutch wife (GULING) and that is the origin of the anime bodypillow. YOURE WELCOME WEEBS

This video has blown my mind! Best geography channel! Subbed and keep up the good work!

great video much of facts in this video are new to me as Indonesian

as an indonesian i'd say it's pretty accurate! just a bit missed some details but a great introduction to new learners

sorry to post out of topic, but indonesia should have larger influence in this world, i think the problem is, indonesian are in their most comfort zone, no conflict, people dont go to america to chase american dream, which results in the amount of indonesian immigrant, thats why you never heard anything about indonesia.... why philippines, the small country in south east asia is so famous?? because they have lots of immigrant in USA and they bring their culture there... here, let me give you one example, australia is one of the most close developed country near indonesia... compared to malaysia and chinese, indonesia has less immigrant there than both those country, broo indonesia is much closer to australia then china and malaysia, how come indonesia dont live there permanently???? because indonesian are in ther most comfort zone, there is a saying here in indonesia, "it's better stone rain in our land, than gold in foreign land"

I feel so damn heard as an Indinesian, as a kid I was always bummed out that cause we were a relatively new landmass we had no dinosaurs and no interesting prehistoric mammals, just bigger or smaller copies of mainland animals, plus a sort of long tusked dwarf elephant. But wow the country's been doing a lot of work in human history.

After scrolling through the comments, i think it's mandatory for me as Indonesian to... "ADA INDONESIA COY!!!!"

I know some of volcano erruptions in the past, but just known the impacts to the human history 🤔 good content. subscribed. 👍🙏

As Indonesian, this video is amazing, its surprising that so many big thing triggered by this region

the fact that a single volcano almost drove mankind to extinction is still baffling me

Every mountains in Indonesia are literally volcanos, that some of them are remain dormant. So they look like usual mountains which also very dangerous because people started residing around its peak for generations, without knowing when will the giant monter will wake.

Funny, Indonesia's volcanoes help boost the popularity of bicycles and my favourite bicycle brand is from Indonesia, Polygo, most well known for making near indestructible bicycles and weird suspension that does unnatural things.

Awesome video man 👍🏽 as a Malaysian with Javanese ancestry, this gives me a deeper appreciation for my ancestors struggles and migrations through the ring of fire.

Indonesia (precisely 2nd president son) was the reason Lamborghini still exists and thrive

If there was a hobbit in Indonesia, then Mt doom is tambora and the island where it's located is mordor

The Netherlands is such a tiny country, so far removed from the side of the world where Indonesia is, with an insane amount of continents and ocean between them. It's seems so counter-intuitive that it somehow controlled an enormous archipelago of islands, the width of North America, with _several_ of the world's very largest islands. But there you go... history is crazy.

the book 'Dune' is basically inspired by dutch colonialism in indonesia

Proud to have hear about the year without summer. Also heard that temperatures dropped by only 2 degrees on average

I am not sure about this but I have read one article about the contradiction names between Greenland and Iceland also related to the Samalas Mountain Eruption in the 1257 Century. The Mountain is also located in Indonesia. Before the eruption, Vikings named Iceland based on the snowy weather and a big chunk of ice they found in Iceland and Greenland based on the green scenery. But Samalas mountain eruption changed the earth's temperature during a temporary ice age (in certain parts of the earth, including Greenland and Iceland ). Greenland became more and more icy and Iceland became more and more habitable for the Vikings.

fascinating! 😯🗺️👍

I have been wondering about the VOC company and its impacts on global economy . It would be interesting subject if we could trace the money trail after VOC bankruptcy. where did the money go ?

The Dutch atrocities at the time was apparently well-known to everyone that it was reported that the Sultan of Maguindanao (in southern Philippines) had all the nutmeg trees in his kingdom chopped down, to avoid the infamous Dutch rage.

A high quality land for agriculture comes a high risk... We Indonesian feeling greatful and terrified at the same time

You forgot Samalas Eruption in 1257 (The location today is part of Mount Rinjani Complex in Lombok Sumbawa). The eruption effect Mongol expansion and also its decline. I saw the video explanation on K & G Channel

I guess we know why Indonesian don't need to pursue nuclear weapon. If it came to the worse, just idk, find out how to erupt the volcanoes, ensuring mutually assured destruction for everyone on the planet

Colonisation wasn't the fisrt thing that united those vast territory, long before, Majapahit Kingdom managed to unite majority of southeast asia under the name Nusantara, even larger than the current Indonesia.

Indonesia is so beautiful so come visit us, we had a lot of mountains, beaches, you can feel Asia culture such as paddy fields and rice but it will feel different than when you visit another asian culture such as vietnam. The dangerous part that probably scares you about volcano and earthquakes are not gonna happened to you unless you chose to stay here 😂.

I hope that next time people will talk about Enrique from Maluku, maybe this will change your perspective on world exploration, and open up the world of spices to Europe

Your voice is clipping a little. Record with the input volume a litlte bit lower. Great content.

don't forget ,tambora eruption also played a big role in Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.

Indonesia are Wakanda and konoha at the same time. Important country nobody know, but had and will have global impact.

Secret hidden mission past Indonesia help vietnam Indonesia help pakistan Indonesia help Singapore Indonesia help arab green

So, in a way Netherlands should thank indonesia for their wealth..

Within 10 minutes!

Indonesia di jajah pada awalnya hanya oleh sebuah perusahaan pertama di dunia yang disebut sebagai VOC yang merupakan perusahaan terkaya sepanjang masa. VOC merupakan pionir pasar modal dunia. VOC memiliki pasukan paramiliter yang hebat dimasanya yang memiliki Aliansi yang luas di Asia Tenggara dan timur

I know this is a clickbait for Indonesian netizens but as an Indonesian I have to click it anyway. Great video!

❤❤❤Indonesia❤❤❤

As Indonesian I never realize this. We just took everything for granted and just live as Indonesian wether its good or bad still my motherland.

bro how did you get a footage of jakarta free of pollution in 10:31 ?

I guess you ve missed the asia africa conference. Our fore fathers were the ones starting it as i remember.