The city of Jakarta began its story from the Dutch traders that arrived in the island in their conquest of finding precious spices. The Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, commonly known as the VOC or Dutch East India Company, landed on what was then Jayakarta in 15951. The archipelago of modern Indonesia was a melting pot of […]
In 1595, the Dutch arrived in the archipelago of Indonesia as part of their voyage of obtaining natural resources1. The Dutch began settling, and continued to establish trading posts around the islands, slowly beginning their 350-year-long colonization. Cities were built around ports, endorsing the trading of goods. With the arrival of the Westerners, comes an […]