Explain more please!! And I could help more
they were interested in the fur trade more than anything else
Even though Indonesia gained its independence from the Dutch, the country was still poor because Dutch used this country for crops and gave little investments to transportation, education, and health. With this fact, the economy of this country in that time was still progressing.
I'm not sure if you made a typo or not but in the current context I can only see negligible being relevant.