cultuurstelsel

== Dutch == === Etymology === Compound of cultuur (“cultivation, culture”) +‎ stelsel (“system”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kʏlˈtyːrˌstɛl.səl/ Hyphenation: cul‧tuur‧stel‧sel === Proper noun === cultuurstelsel n (historical) a policy of allocating (nominally) 20% of agricultural land in the Dutch East Indies to export crops, imposed by the Dutch government as a type of lease, operating from 1830 until the 1870s for most products and until the early twentieth century for coffee; the system was widely abused leading to much higher land use for export crops ==== Descendants ==== → Indonesian: cultuurstelsel == Indonesian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Dutch cultuurstelsel (literally “cultivation system”), from Dutch cultuur (“culture”) + stelsel (“system”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kʊltʊrstɛlsəl/ Hyphenation: cul‧tuur‧stel‧sel === Noun === cultuurstelsel (historical) a Dutch East Indies government policy to allocate rural land for export crops from 1830 to c.1870 Synonym: tanam paksa === Further reading === “cultuurstelsel”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016