The Greenlanders, of course, haven't complained because they don't have the internet. So the Dutch exploited their island colonies with the system of culterstessel, in which all peasants had to set aside one-fifth of their land to grow cash crops for export to the Netherlands. This accounted for 25% of the total Dutch national budget, and it explains why they have all kinds of fancy buildings despite technically living underwater. They're like sea monkeys. This system was rather less popular in Indonesia, and the Dutch didn't offer much in exchange. They couldn't even defend their colony from the Japanese, who occupied it for most of World War II, during which time the Japanese furthered the cause of Indonesian nationalism by placing native Indonesians in more prominent positions of power, including Sukarno, who became Indonesia's first prime minister. After the war, the Dutch, with British help, tried to hold onto their Indonesian colonies with so-called police actions, which went on for more than four years before Indonesia finally won its independence in 1950.