Landrentestelsel
The Landrentestelsel (literally: Land Tax System) (1816-1830) was a system of taxation levied in the Dutch East Indies after regaining control of Java in 1816, by the Treaty of Paris, in which the indigenous population paid a predetermined portion (half, two-fifths, or one-third) of its agricultural products grown or a similar sum to the colonial administration. Predated by the Landrente (Land Tax) introduced to the island colony under British administration by the Lieutenant Governor General Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1811.