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 […]
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