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Tuesday, July 5, 2016
'The builder of Batavia' who is buried there was a man with a motto, as quoted in 1618: "Despair not, spare your enemies not, for God is with us."
He was certainly a strict Christian, an administrator who upheld discipline and of course pursued VOC (Dutch East India Company) ambitions to monopolize trade in Asia in the 17th century.
arsip tempo : 178037592013.
On a faded marble plaque mounted on the wall on the ground floor of the Wayang Museum in the old area of Jakarta, a name is engraved:
DE STICHTER VAN BATAVIA
JAN PIETERSZOON COEN
'The builder of Batavia' who is buried there was a man with a motto, as quoted in 1618: "Despair not, spare your enemies not, for God is with us."
He was certainly a strict Christian, an administrator who upheld discipline and of course pursued VOC (Dutch East India Comp
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