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The VOC Verenigde OostIndische Compagnie was both the absolutist and the pacifier as it sought to colonize Sunda Kelapa through the displacement of the indigenous population architecture and regimen the VOC was deployed catalyst to the marking of a golden era roughly spanning the 17th century through which architecture trade science and military boomed marking Jakarta a resilient harbour to the worlds finest trades Batavia modernday Jakarta welded a myriad of names endorsing its irrefutable paramount one of which Queen of the East paraphrased an allusion to its urban beauty Until its last derogatory stages before the Dutch surrendered to the Japanese the name Batavia ricocheted across the globe as reverberation to its resilience urban beauty the varsity of cultures and robust trade as the Dutch East India Company The VOC has unequivocally paved the road of prominence for the glorious city of Jakarta manifesting a discourse of exalting Analysing the egress and relinquishment of the Dutch Empire and its appurtenant colony delineating the urban tableau a prevalent architectural resplendence The unravelling of holistic fabric through which urban planning architectonics politics and sociology interweave meandering the gradual transition of the Dutch East Indies yearning subordinate to Jakarta the unwavering proclaimed prerogative
