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=> Jayakarta : East India Company (early 17th century)

In late 16th century, Jayakarta was ruled under the Sultanate of Banten. Prince Jayawikarta, a follower of the Sultan of Banten, established a settlement on the west banks of the Ciliwung River. He erected a military post there in order to control the port at the mouth of the river.[9]
In 1595, merchants from Amsterdam set up an expedition to the East Indies archipelago. Under the command of Cornelis de Houtman, the expedition arrived in Jayakarta in 1596 with the intention of trading spices; more or less the same as that of the Portuguese.[9]

Meanwhile in 1602, the English East India Company's first voyage, commanded by Sir James Lancaster, arrived in Aceh and sailed on to Bantam, the capital of the Sultanate of Banten, where he was allowed to build trading post which becomes the centre of English trade in Indonesia until 1682.[10]
In 1610, the Dutch merchants were granted permission to build a wooden godown and some houses just opposite of Prince Jayawikarta settlement on the east bank of the river.[9] As the Dutch grew more and more powerful, Jayawikarta allowed the British to erect houses on the West Bank of Ciliwung River and a fort close to his customs office post to keep his strength equal to that of the Dutch. Jayawikarta was in support of the British because his palace was under the threat of the Dutch cannons. In December 1618, the tense relationship between Prince Jayawikarta and the Dutch escalated. Jayawikarta soldiers besieged the Dutch fortress that covered two strong godown, namely Nassau and Mauritius. The British fleet made up of 15 ships arrived. The fleet was under the leadership of Sir Thomas Dale, an English naval commander and former governor of the Colony of Virginia (present State of Virginia).[9]

After the sea battle, the newly appointed Dutch governor Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1618) escaped to the Moluccas to seek support (where the Dutch had already taken the first of the Portuguese forts in 1605). Meanwhile, the commander of the Dutch army, Pieter van den Broecke, along with five other men, was arrested when the negotiation was underway because Jayawikarta felt that he was deceived by the Dutch.[11] Later, Jayawikarta and the British entered into a friendship agreement.[9] Source :[link]

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