| Indonesian Dutch | |
|---|---|
| East Indies Dutch | |
| Indonesisch-Nederlands | |
 Tea packaging that still maintains the old design and Dutch spelling. | |
| Native to | Indonesia Netherlands |
| Region | |
| Ethnicity | |
Native speakers | 500,000 (1984)[a] |
Early forms | |
| Latin (Dutch and Indonesian alphabets) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
 Dutch-speaking world (Indonesian Dutch in light blue) | |
Indonesian Dutch (Dutch: Indonesisch-Nederlands) is a regional variety of the Dutch spoken in Indonesia. In its development, Dutch has become the language used by colonial rulers for centuries in Indonesian Archipelago, when it was, or was partly, colonized by the Netherlands. It was an official language in the Dutch East Indies, and also in Netherlands New Guinea, before the handover of Western New Guinea to Indonesia in 1963.
The Dutch language still used in Indonesia is derived from the 19th to 20th century Dutch varieties, which are of course different from today's Standard Dutch.[3]
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