Dutch

It just so happens that I am taking a class on Carribean literature this semester. It seems the theme of every single author we have read thus far is either colonization or post-colonization. We also watched a documentary about Jamaica, which I can't remember the title of (seems to be a problem of mine). One of the major issued discussed was the fact that with independence most formerly colonized countries/islands are left in major debt. So, the colonizing country effectively wipes its hands clean of political obligation, but stays empowered by monetary dependence.
I tried t0 find something relevant online, and the closest I could get was from some "anti-debt coalition" that focused on Asia and Africa. The site argues that the "debt-making process" becomes an instrument to meet the interests of the ruling classes both in the debtor countries and the indebted countries as well. I don't exactly know what is meant by "debt-making process," but what I take out of it all is that the formerly colonizing country breaks ties and the formerly colonized can not support itself monetarily, thus calling for the need to raise things like property tax among the citizens (benefiting the ruling class of the indebted) and import taxes (benefiting the ruling class of the debtor).
One particular place of interest this site seems to focus on is Indonesia. They throw a lot of numbers and letters around, usually in the millions and THR EE CAPS, but what stuck was the idea that these countries (Indonesia in this case) can not develop because they are struggling just to stay above water, so to speak, even though a great deal are living "under poverty lines."
So, as I'm reading I come across this word I've seen before. Here's a quote: "Foreign debt problem ensued by economic groups signifying the world’s economics, undoubtedly, has great impacts on relationship patterns among the countries all over the world. This condition has created a hegemonic relationship pattern among these countries, namely the hegemony of rich countries over poor and intermediate countries."
HEGEMONY! Small world, huh?
Then I decide to look up Indonesia's background because this is about being colonized and...
it was part of the Dutch East Indies, under Dutch rule and Japanese occupation. One problem in its unification is the fact that the are is an archipelago, which is a collection or series of islands. This may also be a factor that has led to their struggles, and even a contributing factor to its colonization.