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I'd like to thank for her info about Anglo & Dutch merchants competition incident in Banten. Thank you so much (>v<)
Malaysia is holding a ketupat and Singapore is holding a durian.

=> Pretending to be British

Gabriel Towerson suggest Captain Scott that all the Englismen should wear white silk, don scarves, white taffeta and make 'a flagge with the redde crosse thorow the middle'. This was done to help locals identify Englishmen from Dutchmen. At the time the Englishmen was very well-liked by the locals, while the Dutchmen are evaded by the locals because they don't trade fairly. The envious Dutchmen often pretended to be an Englishmen and confuse the locals.
Source : Gales Milton (1999) Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

=> Banten Sutanate : International Trade

The Banten Sultanate was founded in the 16th century and centered in Banten, a port city on the northwest coast of Java; the contemporary English spelling of both was Bantam. Once a great trading center in Southeast Asia, especially of pepper.

The English, who started to sail to the East Indies from around 1600, established a permanent trading post in Banten in 1602 under James Lancaster. In 1603, the first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia was established in Banten.[11]

Danish merchants also arrived from Tranquebar, in search of pepper. The trade relation is evident in two letters written by Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa to Frederick III of Denmark. [12]
Attesting to Bantem's renown in Europe is Henry Fielding's play "The Author's Farce" at whose conclusion the protagonist's problems are neatly solved when he is suddenly informed that he is "The Prince of Bantam", and that as the old "King of Bantam" has died he is to inherit the throne. Fielding and his London audience clearly conceived of "Bantam" as a prosperous country of which it a great fortune to become the monarch.

Traders coming from China, India, Turkey, England, Portugal and the Netherlands were frequent visitors to the Banten harbor. Spices, silk, Chinese ceramics, gold, jewelry and other Asian goods attracted European merchants. Banten was a pioneer in international trade.

The greatest period in Banten is arguably under Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa. In 1661 he extended Banten's rule to Landak in western Borneo. In the 1670s he also acquired Cirebon area following a civil war in Mataram. Ageng established trade with the Spanish Manila for silver and built canals for coconut palm and sugar plantations, among other developments.[9] Source :[link]

Hetalia, England aph, Spain aph, Egypt aph, Italy aph, Macau aph & Netherlands aph belonged to Himaruya H.
Spice Islands is Maluku Islands in Indonesia.
Indonesia aph, Malaysia aph & Portugal aph based on Himaruya's sketch. ([link])
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