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The Dutch in Batavia: How a Swamp Became a Colonial Capital
In 1619, Jan Pieterszoon Coen burned the Javanese town of Jayakarta and built Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's brutal Asian hub. This episode follows the city's rise from a malarial swamp to the 'Queen of the East,' exploring the engineered canals, the Chinese quarter, the slave market, and the massacres that kept the VOC's trade flowing. We meet Coen, the architect of genocide in the Banda Islands, who forced enslaved workers and Chinese convicts to drain the marshes. We walk through the walled city with its grid of canals, the Batavia Castle, and the…
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