VOC: The Merchant, My Master!
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
Those who think that Indonesia reached its glory before the advent of the VOC (Dutch East Indies Company) are mistaken. Such grandeur lasted only for a while. What occurred incessantly were wars between princes, kings, bandits and pirates. The concepts of unity and union were alien throughout the Nusantara archipelago.
A big armada of the Singosari kingdom under the red-and-white banner of the Javanese monarchy sailed from Tuban in 1275. Pale
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