<P> The Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost - Indische Compagnie, "United East India Company"; VOC) had a presence in the Indonesian archipelago from 1603, when the first trading post was established, to 1800, when the bankrupt company was dissolved, and its possessions nationalised as the Dutch East Indies . </P> <P> A 1596 Dutch expedition lost half its crew, killed a Javanese prince and lost a ship but returned to the Dutch Republic with a load of spices, the profit from which encouraged other expeditions . </P> <P> Recognising the potential of the East Indies spice trade, and to prevent competition eating into Dutch profits, the Dutch Government amalgamated the competing merchant companies into the United East India Company (VOC). In 1602, the States General of the Netherlands granted it a 21 - year monopoly in the spice trade in Asia . It was awarded quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts, negotiate treaties, coin money, and establish colonies . </P> <P> In 1603, the first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia was established in Banten (town), northwest Java and in 1611, another was established at Jayakarta (later renamed' Batavia' and then' Jakarta'). </P>

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