Batavia Indonesia


Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java The founding of Batavia by the Dutch in 1619, on the site of the. Today, Batavia is no more. This former Dutch colony in Indonesia exists only in glimmers on the streets of Jakarta. But those glimmers, however faint, tell a story of immense wealth and horrific violence. Established by the Dutch in 1619, Batavia rapidly became the heart of the Dutch East Indies. Spice in the 17th century was as good as gold. Old Batavia, the Jewel of Asia. In its heydays in the 16th century, Batavia was known as "The Queen of the East"and "the Jewel of Asia". Its Sunda Kelapa harbour was abuzz with merchant vessels from Europe, China, India and from throughout the Indonesian archipelago, loading in and sailing away with precious nutmegs, pepper, tea, coffee. The Batavia was 46 metres (150 ft) in length and carried a cargo of twelve chests of silver coin worth 250,000 guilders, trade goods, including cochineal, cloth, wines, and cheeses, and a valuable gem from antiquity known as the Constantine Cameo. The VOC had been granted the right to trade exclusively in Asia and obtain spices by the States General of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. The Dutch name Batavia remained the internationally recognized name until full Indonesian independence was achieved and Djakarta was officially proclaimed the national capital (and its present name recognized) on December 27, Jakarta has undergone tremendous growth and development since Indonesia's independence. The fort is the so-called Castle of Batavia (in what is today Jakarta, Indonesia) that was built when the Dutch took control of the area in the seventeenth century. L ike other Dutch landscape paintings of the period, such as Jacob Ruisdael's View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields, Andries Beeckman carefully arranged the elements of his canvas. The centrality of Batavia in nationalist visions of an independent Indonesia became clear by on 17 August 1945, when Sukarno and Hatta proclaimed the independent Indonesian Republic in the city. For some months the city was the theater of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary violence. Offering iconic colonial ambience and original-style Dutch East India cuisine, Cafe Batavia is open daily. Housed in an 1830s buiilding, Cafe Batavia has two storeys comprising a bar, a stage for performances, and a lounge area on the ground floor. The upper floor features an upscale dining hall catering for 150 guests. Kota Tua is a remainder of Old Batavia, the first walled settlement of the Dutch in Jakarta area. It was an inner walled city with its own area gained importance during the 17th-19th century when it was established as the de facto capital of the Dutch East inner walled city contrasted with the surrounding kampung (villages), orchards, and rice fields. The built environment was an important determinant of social behavior, particularly segregation, in the colonial city of Batavia. Built in 1619 to establish a Dutch administrative and cultural headquarters in Southeast Asia for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Batavia evinced the general principles of seventeenth-century Dutch planning back in the Netherlands, including a layout that. Seventeenth-century market in the city Batavia (nowadays Jakarta, Indonesia), the central node of Dutch imperial activities in the Indian Ocean region.

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Criterion (iii): As the centre of a network of European and Asian, Intra-Asian and inter islands trade in Indonesia, Batavia developed unique cross cultural traditions such as: Maardijker culture, Indies culture (Eurasian) and Chinese Peranakan culture. This tangible and intangible heritage is visible in the various different religious. Before it became Jakarta, the Dutch named the settlement Batavia, and its strategic location was all-important to the European maritime trade. It grew in importance once spices were discovered, thriving on the Banda Islands in the Banda Sea remoteness of the Indonesian archipelago. While small, these islands, about 2,000 km east of Java, played. This study is about the urbanism and society of otherness in confrontation with critical past and present. The focus of this study is to unveil and dismantle aspects of subjectivity and otherness concerning the history of social and cultural geography. The case study is the Dutch V. C urbanism in Indonesia between 1602 and 1800. Sulawesi in Indonesia was a primary point of the pearl trade for Aboriginal groups for more than 500 years. Asian slaves were critical to the functioning of Batavia, and the mixed-race women who partnered the Dutch men have passed into colonial legend, being characterised as vicious, lascivious, indolent and spoilt.

JAKARTA (BATAVIA) in Nineteenth Century Photographs - Jakarta is a tropical, humid city, with annual temperatures ranging between the extremes of 75 and 93 °F (24 and 34 °C) and a relative humidity between 75 and 85 percent. The average mean temperatures are 79 °F (26 °C) in January and 82 °F (28 °C) in October. The annual rainfall is more than 67 inches (1,700 mm). Batavia's Old Port, Woodbury & Page, circa late 1860s. The Premises of Bahre & Kinder, Woodbury & Page, circa The Amsterdam Gate, Woodbury & Page, circa 1880s. Chinatown at Glodok, Woodbury & Page, 1872 or earlier. While the old town and port became the "downtown", a new "uptown", better known as "Weltevreden. Once known as Batavia, the bustling capital of the Dutch East Indies, Jakarta offers a fascinating blend of history and modernity. Walking through its narrow streets, you can almost hear whispers of the past. From colonial-era buildings to vibrant markets, Batavia's influence is still palpable, making Jakarta a true melting pot of cultures.



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