The Indonesian National Awakening (Indonesian: Kebangkitan
Nasional Indonesia) is a term for the period in the first half of
the twentieth century, during which people from many parts of the archipelago
first began to develop a national consciousness as "Indonesians".
In the pursuit of profits and administrative
control, the Dutch imposed an authority of the Dutch
East Indies on an array of peoples who had not previously shared a unified
political identity. By the start of the twentieth century, the Dutch had formed
the territorial boundaries of a colonial state that became the precursor to
modern Indonesia.