Decline of Srivijaya's Maritime Power

Name: Decline of Srivijaya's Maritime Power
Start: 1131
End: 1140

Type Event Region Southeast Asia Time 1131–1140

In the 1130s, the maritime hegemony of Srivijaya, which had once dominated the Strait of Malacca, had significantly declined.…

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1131–1135Strait of Malacca · Southeast AsiaIn the 1130s, Srivijaya could no longer effectively monopolize the shipping routes of the entire Strait of Malacca. Emerging ports on the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra's coast attracted Arab and Song, as well as late Song and early Yuan Chinese merchant ships, and Srivijaya's trade taxes and escort revenues shrank sharply.
1135–1140Palembang and southeastern Sumatra · SumatraFormer vassals and port cities of Srivijaya grew further centrifugal, and inland Javanese kingdoms such as Kediri rose in maritime trade. Although Palembang remained a Buddhist center and seat of local polities, it had lost the hegemonic status it previously held as the capital of a Southeast Asian maritime empire.

Srivijaya: History, Religion and Language of an Early Malay Polity — G. Coedès
The Indianized States of Southeast Asia — G. Coedès (1968)
Early Kingdoms of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula — P. M. Munoz (2006)