van der Eng, Pierre2015-12-100026-749Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/57710Abstract This paper quantifies the consumption and production of cotton textiles at different stages of processing in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial era (1820-1941). It discusses the main factors that impeded the development of an internationally comKeywords: colonialism; competitiveness; cotton; industrial production; investment; technological change; textile industry; Indonesia; Gossypium hirsutum201310.1017/S0026749X120007652016-02-24