HISTORY..........................

Sunda Kelapa (397–1527)

Under the rule of Sundanese Empire, become the city and Port of 
Sunda Kalapa

                                                                       
    

                Sunda Kalapa Harbour

Portueguese ( 1511 – 1527 )

Lead by Alfonso d’Albuquerqque arrive in Malaka and Sunda Kalapa

De  Mardijkers 

        Alfonso d’Albuquerqque

Map of  Indonesia

                                                                              Tugu Village 

Jayakarta  ( 1527 – 1619 )

From  Sanskrit  word means the City of Glory,  Given name by Fatahillah who qonqured the Portuguese Fortress on June 22. 1527

Dutch ( 1596 )

Cornelis de Houtman and Peter Keyzer  arrive in Banten

 Map Speelwijk

 Speelwijk Fort

Speelwijk Fort

Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie / VOC 
                (1602 – 1799 ) 

                                     

Pieter Both 

Pieter Both was invited to become the First  Governor-General. He held  that  position from

19 December  1610  to  6 November 1614.

 

Jan Pieterzoon Coen

Statue of J.P. Coen in Hoorn

Jan Pieterzoon Coen become  a Governor General 18 April 1618, but  official as a  Governor  

From 21 Mei   1619 – 1623.      He died on  Sept 21, 1629 in Batavia.

                                             

Batavia (Batavieren) ( 30 Mei 1619 – 1942 )

Given name by  de Heeren Seventien in Netherlands.                                                                             

                                                      

   Symbol of Batavia   

                 De  Oude Hollandsche Kerk  

          

                                                                           Port of Batavia

Herman William Daendels   (1808 – 1811)

                                         Cathedral at Waterloo Plein

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                                                      Waterloo  Plein

  De Amsterdamse Poort te Batavia

                                    

                                      Daendels  Palace

                                         

                                                  Daendels Palace and the statue of J.P. Coen

The 36th Governor General, He built new hospitals and military barracks, a new arms factories in Surabaya and Semarang, and a new military college in Batavia. He demolished the Castle in Batavia and replaced it with a new fort at Meester Cornelis (Jatinegara), and built Fort Lodewijk in Surabaya. 

                                                                                       

Herman William Daendels                                                                                                   

However, his best-known achievement was the construction of the Great Post Road  (Indonesian: Jalan Raya Pos) across northern Java from Anyer, (West Java) to Panarukan (East Java )

                                                                           Post Weg

British ( 1811 – 1815 )
In 1811, Raffles  prepared the way for British invasion of the island of Java ( now part of Indonesia) during the war between Great Britain and France, then a Dutch possession.

                                                           

                                                              Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles 

Raffles remained in Java as Lieutenant Governor, At the same year he was knighted and appointed Lieutenant Governor of Bencoolen, Sumatra (now Bengkulu, Indonesia). 

After he returned to Great Britain when the island was returned to the Dutch in 1816, he published his work The History of Java (1817).

Japanese  ( March 1942 – August 1945 )

At this time the Japanese call the city of Batavia as  " JAKARTA " 

 Map of the Present Jakarta

 Symbol of Jakarta

WELCOME  statue