Presentation
The local inhabitants did not happy with the colonization, thus they fought the colonialists. The Johor Kingdom, for example, launched war repeatedly against the Portuguese from 1511-1596 to win back Malacca from the Portuguese and the same resistance also given to the Dutch as well as the English. Before the 20th century, the opposition was bloody in nature in which the people used arms to free themselves from the control of colonialists. Do you know why the people opposed the colonialists? The factors of their opposition can be summarized as follow:
- Local rulers and leaders lost power and control over their own country
- Exploitation of national resources by the colonists and their control over the taxation system that had become the source of income of local leaders
- The colonists did not understand the local customs and customary practices such as slavery and the tradition of hunting for human heads in Sarawak. When the colonists tried to eradicate those practices, the local people opposed them