VOC Colonial Administration of Batavia

Name: VOC Colonial Administration of Batavia
Start: 1661
End: 1670

Type Event Region Asia Time 1661–1670

In the 1660s the Dutch East India Company built a colonial administration centered on Batavia (modern Jakarta), controlling northern Java's trade and…

Timeline

1661–1670Batavia · JavaThe VOC Governor-General resided in Batavia and, with the Council of the Indies, decided military, trade, and diplomatic policy for VOC posts across Asia. Governors of the 1660s such as Joan Maetsuycker pushed expansion into eastern Indonesia and control over Javanese states.
1663–1670Batavia · JavaBatavia had municipal bodies, a port tariff system, and Chinese community management (an early form of the Chinese head system), and through treaties and force influenced the sultanates of Banten and Cirebon on Java's west coast, consolidating VOC trade dominance in the Sunda Strait.

Sources

Blusse, Leonard — Strange Company: Chinese Settlers, Mestizo Women, and the Dutch in VOC Batavia — Leonard Blusse (1986)
Encyclopaedia Britannica — Batavia (Jakarta) https://www.britannica.com/place/Batavia-historical-city-Indonesia