Do you know how economy in Dutch East Indies worked before the Dutch's arrival. Actually, there are still some traces of it until today.
There are two types of agriculture are predominant in Indonesia: permanent farming (sawah)in Java, Bali and the highland of Sumatra and impermanent(ladang) farming in other parts.
Creatively, the native invented a way to retain water in highlands by flattening the hillsides. If you want to examine them yourself, take a trip to Sulawesi and some other places.
Numerous rivers flowing all over the islands have carried farm and forest products for centuries and have been channels for cultural communication.
Being a tropical country, Dutch East Indies is rich in many kinds of vegetable, fruit and especially, spices.
Wanting to know where to buy valuable stuff? Let's look at distribution of the economy:
Plantation of rubber, palm oil, and sisal are prominent in Sumatra,
-Coffee, sugar, and tea are prominent in Java.
-Spices such as cloves, nutmeg, and pepper are grown mainly in the outer islands
-Gold, tin, and nickel are mined in Sumatra, Bangka, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Papua
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