De Nederlandsche Handelsmaatschappij The Netherlands Trading Society
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De Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij
(the Dutch Trade Society)
Around 1820 the Dutch king Willem I was faced with some problems: the economy in the Northern part of the Netherlands was slumping; also, foreign trade and traffic with the Dutch colonies were not recovering.
Willem I had to find a way to solve those problems. To do just this, the NHM was founded on 29 March 1824. The king had a vision of the NHM helping to transform the Netherlands into a booming international market and an important industrial power. These goals had to be achieved by establishing new trade-relations abroad, and so creating new markets for Dutch products. The main concern of the NHM was recovering the trade with the Dutch East Indies. To do this in 1826 the NHM created a trade post in the Indies in Batavia.
The NHM made some attempts to trade with other continents, but they failed because the trade with the Dutch East Indies needed all their attention.
In 1830 the Dutch government decided to introduce a system of forced farming in the Dutch East Indies. Farmers on Batavia had to cultivate products for the Western-European market...