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The Dutch in the Spice Islands: Conquest of the Banda Islands

6 min•24 maj 2026

In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) arrived in the Banda Islands with a treaty in one hand and a sword in the other. What followed was one of the most brutal episodes in colonial history: the conquest of the nutmeg-producing islands of Banda Neira, Lontor, Ai, and Run. This episode focuses on the VOC's systematic campaign to monopolize the spice trade, from the early negotiations with local orang kaya (chiefs) to the massacre of 1621 led by Jan Pieterszoon Coen. We explore the siege of Fort Belgica on Banda Neira, the extirpation or near-genocide of the Bandanese people, and the subsequent division of the nutmeg groves among Dutch planters and enslaved laborers. The episode also touches on the longer legacy: the British exchange of Run for Manhattan, and the quiet role of enslaved workers in the spice plantations. This is a story of profit, violence, and the remaking of an entire society for the sake of a single spice.

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