Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)

The Dutch-East India Company’s Letter to Sultan Azimuddin of Buton

Authors
Aghnia Okta Hafisah, Dewaki Kramadibrata
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Aghnia Okta Hafisah
Available Online November 2018.
Keywords
Buton, Sultan Azimuddin, Dutch.
Abstract

“The letter from the Dutch-East India Company to Sultan Azimuddin” is a form of correspondence between the Dutch and the Buton Sultanate written on February 25, 1791. The manuscript has been digitally documented and has been made into microfilm which is now stored in the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia. The Dutch-East India Company's letter to Sultan Azimuddin consisted of 13 pages and was written in jawi script. The text of the Company’s letter to Sultan Azimuddin discussed several issues, including violations of the 1766 Contract, debt, illicit trade, Dutch employees, and compensation payments on the ship Rust en Werk. This study was conducted using a qualitative approach. To obtain information about Buton and the Dutch, the content is analyzed using literature review. This study shows the diplomatic relations between the Dutch and Buton at the end of the XVIII century seen in Surat Kompeni kepada Sultan Azimuddin. The Dutch intervened in the sovereignty of the Buton Sultanate, although Buton's sovereignty was strong enough and Buton refused to comply. Nevertheless, the Dutch maintained their diplomatic relations with Buton because the Dutch saw Buton's great potential.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2018
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2352-5398
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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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