This article is about the history of Jakarta. For a general timeline of the area, see Timeline of Jakarta. For the specific period when the area was called Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, see Batavia, Dutch East Indies.
Image of Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies in what is now North Jakarta, circa 1780
Jakarta is Indonesia's capital and largest city. Located on an estuary of the Ciliwung River, on the northwestern part of Java, the area has long sustained human settlement. Historical evidence from Jakarta dates back to the 4th century CE, when it was a Hindu settlement and port. The city has been sequentially claimed by the Indianized kingdom of Tarumanegara, the Hindu Kingdom of Sunda, the Muslim Sultanate of Banten, and by Dutch, Japanese and Indonesian administrations.[1] The Dutch East Indies built up the area before it was taken during World War II by the Empire of Japan and finally became independent as part of Indonesia.
Jakarta has been known by several names. It was called Sunda Kalapa during the Kingdom of Sunda period and Jayakarta, Djajakarta or Jacatra during the short period of the Banten Sultanate. Thereafter, Jakarta evolved in three stages. The "old city", close to the sea in the north, developed between 1619 and 1799 during the era of the VOC. The "new city" to the south evolved between 1809 and 1942 after the Dutch government took over control of Batavia from the failed VOC whose charter expired in 1799. The third was the development of modern Jakarta since the proclamation of independence in 1945. Under the Dutch, it was known as Batavia (1619–1945), and was Djakarta (in Dutch) or Jakarta, during the Japanese occupation and the modern period.[2][3]
For a more detailed history of Jakarta before the proclamation of Indonesian independence, see Batavia, Dutch East Indies.
^"History of Jakarta". Jakarta.go.id. 8 March 2011. Archived from the original on June 8, 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
^See also Perfected Spelling System as well as Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia/Naming conventions
^Lesson: Old Indonesian Spellings. StudyIndonesian. Retrieved on 2013-07-16.
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