VOC Treaties;
Collected contracts of the Dutch Indian Administration, 1596-1799
Corpus Diplomaticum
Date: 1596-1799
Original Language: Dutch
Description
On 23 June 1596, Cornelis de Houtman arrived in Bantam, West Java, at the head of the first Dutch fleet to reach Indonesia. On 1 July 1596, the first of many treaties with Asian rulers was signed with the sultan of Bantam, pioneering a practice of peace-making between the locals and the VOC (Dutch E…