Decline of Srivijaya

Name: Decline of Srivijaya
Start: 1210
End: 1215

Type Event Region Southeast Asia Time 1210–1215

In the early 13th century, the Srivijaya maritime empire, once master of the Malacca Strait, kept declining, with overlordship around Palembang shrin…

Timeline

1210–1215Southeastern Sumatra · SumatraSrivijaya's central authority over distant ports and vassals continued to weaken. More autonomous local rulers appeared in the southern Malay Peninsula and around the Java Sea, no longer paying regular tribute to Palembang. Maritime trade revenues and escort capacity both fell short of the empire's heyday.
1215–1219Malacca Strait · Malacca StraitBy the late 1210s, Srivijaya could no longer monopolize strait trade routes. Ports such as Temasek (Singapore) rose, and eastern Java was expanding. Though Srivijaya still held Palembang as its political center, its role as regional trade arbiter and overlord had in substance passed to new maritime powers.

Sources

Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 — Anthony Reid (1988)
Early Kingdoms of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula — Paul Michel Munoz (2006)