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VI. Expansion Without Design. The Snare of Javanese Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2011

W. Remmelink
W. Remmelink
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(The Japan-Netherlands Institute, Tokyo)
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That territorial expansion was not necessarily good business had been succinctly stated by Governor-General Jacob Mossel eight years before Hartingh: ‘What the lord spends, the merchant has to pay.’ In fact, concern about the price of territorial expansion had been voiced almost from the beginning, especially in the Board of Directors in Holland, witness Coenraad van Beuningen's analysis of the dual nature of the Company in 1684, in which he decried the territorial role of the Company as detrimental to its true function as a trading company. Also the underlying cause for the eventuel decline of the Company has by contemporaries as well as later observers often been blamed on this almost congenital defect of mixing trade and government in one body.

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Itinerario , Volume 12 , Special Issue 1: The Ancien Regime in India and Indonesia , March 1988 , pp. 111 - 128
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1988

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25 ‘En vermits het waare voordeel van een land en gevolgelijk ook het regte interest van een vorst daarin bestaat dat hetzelve allorlye voordeelige producten uytlevere waardoor den inwoonder zijn bestaan en den vorst zijne inkomsten zoo veel ruymer kan vinden, zoo […].’ ‘Sawab dening babathening nagari punapa dening ratunipun amedalaken sarupining wewedalan darapon dadosa babathenipun ingkang anggenggeni sarta kalih awewaha dados dhahare ratunipun mila […].’ Contract 1743: art. 19; Arsip Nasional Solo (ANS) 53/7.

26 ‘mila sapunika ingkang karsa Kangjeng Susuhunan dening sakathahing paparentahan utawi sakathahing dagangan kang miyos saking ing tanah Jawi, ing mangke akarsa dipun parentahi ing Kangjeng Susuhunan piyambek.’ ANS 52/8.

27 ‘wonten dene bilih manawi wonten tiwasipun dameling Kumpni utawi tiwasing dagangan punika atas pinanggiya ing Kangjeng Susuhunan.’ ANS 52/8.

28 ‘boten tumut-tumut anyekel parentah Jawi.’ ANS 52/8.

29 ‘saking Kangjeng Susuhunan sakalangkung atemen-temen sedya langgeng apawongsanak sabayantu kalih Kumpeni Olandi.’ ANS 52/8.

30 VOC 968, May 31, 1733.

31 VOC 2294 apart: Aug. 6, 1733.

32 VOC 2295 apart: Oct. 15,1733.

33 VOC 7889 apart: Aug. 9, 1738.

34 Soemarsaid Moertono, Stale and Statecraft, 22.