Jogjakarta and Stone Hill
De Boroboedoer - photo courtesy of Bartele Gallery
Any person, but the more fragile knowledge of Indonesia will the role central Yogyakarta played. In culture, the rebellion in the fight invaders Kraton was in the heart of Javanese history. And Stamford Raffles is a man forever linked in Singapore despite the fact that he spent much more time on it than Java on the state of the nascent island. He also spent five years in Penang and from there, he cast envious glances on the long narrow island that was under the equator, seeing it as vital to British interests in the East.
He formulated a plan to bring the island under British control, kicking the French in the process and sailed to Calcutta to convince the great and good, its cashiers there. His enthusiasm on board and in 1810 he sailed to Melaka to assemble the forces needed for such an operation and to develop human intelligence vital to the success of the mission. He spoke the language and was friendly with the locals was in his favor and for several months, he intrigued the historic port on the Malay Peninsula.
When conditions were believed to be correct, both at sea and in Java, force set sail, heading south past the island of Singapore and across the vast island of Borneo before turning south and heading to a place just west of the port of Batavia. Here, the British invaded and pushed the southern French to great castle of Cornelius who was besieged before finally falling.
Now it was time to spread throughout the island, develop contacts Raffles had developed further, but in Jogjakarta the reception was not so hot. He was warmly welcomed in Solo, but things were not going much further south so it was with some trepidation that he entered the Kraton with only 00 soldiers as support. He won the Sultan sanctuary entrance, where a few hundred armed men watched with ill-disguised disgust at the new intruder.
There was a problem on the seating arrangement that left Raffles looking less to the Sultan, not as the head of government. Things heat up for a while and daggers were drawn as the crowd moved, Sultan sneered visitors. Sultan had reported the attack, there was no way the visitors have managed so outnumbered, but they were saying what you like about Raffles, he had guts. He stressed the chairs being rearranged, inferring that it was a misunderstanding, but showing the confidence and strength and the Sultan agreed. An agreement was concluded as with other sultans on the island, extending all the privileges the British as had been extended to the Dutch and the French before.
Nobody was convinced of the relevance of the Treaty. The widely accepted British Sultan would deny as soon as the opportunity and within months was co-opting the Sultan of Solo and run around killing some local leaders and strengthen its defenses.
The British returned with another small force to bring things to a head. The Sultan has pushed the messengers seeking it negotiates the British took occupation of a fort in front of Kraton that had been developed by the Dutch. As British forces approached Yogyakarta, they were attacked by the launch of Rock native, but had little trouble camp.
face to the invaders was a force of some 40,000 well-armed soldiers and a large number of guns. The Sultan, confident as a small force was no match for his great forces gave their unconditional surrender was rejected outright. The British attacked, feint to the main north gate while a larger force had crept through surrounding kampong unnoticed and attacked the northeastern section of the walled compound. It took three hours to take the Kraton and the Sultan was deported to the island of Bangka, recently presented to the British and renamed "Duke of York Island '. His brother was named Sultan and the Palace was moved to Pakualaman Kraton, a little to the east.
Raffles returned to Batavia and Bogor to earn his salary was in the administration of the island for the benefit of his employers, the East India Company. But it seems that Raffles was never happier than when he was at his feet became dirty exploration and recode the history and wildlife of a place and the treatment of autocrats was a mind numbing distraction for him. He gathered around him a similar equity team and had their round performance Java learn as much as possible about the place and it should not be long before we hear something that intrigued many.
It is likely he was already aware of Prambanan, sitting then, as now, by the main Solo - Yogyakarta route but what is unclear was when he heard of Statues of the Hill. When he heard of the presence of a monument of great antiquity, he approached a Dutchman, Cornelius, and asked her to head there and take a look. Given travel time involved, Raffles would head to settle for boredom of the Java runtime, waiting for news of his sent daily. At the time, he can not hold high hopes, after all, he would have often been told of a tall building only to find little substance. But he made a wise choice in sending Cornelius, a man familiar with the area and a man familiar with Prambanan.
He was excited when he heard the Dutch, but could not get out of the office. In November 1814, his wife Olivia died. At the beginning of the following year, his boss who had supported his mission to Java, Lord Minto, died. Raffles, never particularly strong in its own constitution responded in the only way he knew. He climbed Gunung Gede, south of Batavia. He left Bogor April 26, 1815 and the first eyes on the Hill Statues May 18, 1815.
At this time Borobodor was covered with undergrowth and statues of Buddha threw 504 dispersed in the secondary jungle had reclaimed the area. It would have taken 0 men over two weeks to clear away brush and each leg hacked away a small piece of all was revealed. Raffles and his crew would have looked with amazement at the scope of what has been laid before them. The scope and magnitude "mixed with" beauty, richness and accuracy of the sculpture took his breath and left him with a myriad of questions. Who? What? When? Why?
Raffles while taking in the monumental vista before him, the event quickly on Europe's battlefields. a rejuvenated French army was defeated at the battle of Waterloo and within the Java peace was returned to the Country out there. Raffles was out of a job. Borobodor was ignored when the Dutch came back slowly and the jungle. Not until the French 'discovered' Angkor Wat in Cambodia's interest turn again to Hill of. Statues And today, like a million visitors annually tread the floors of this ancient monument in the footsteps of Raffles, the same questions are asked.
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