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From the first arrival of Europeans at Indonesia’s shores, they created and circulated knowledge. The Portuguese, trading with Java and the Moluccas from the early sixteenth century, were the first to publish their travel accounts, and much of our knowledge of the region around that time is based on their reports. After 1600, they no longer played an important role in the Indonesian Archipelago, and their days of knowledge creation concerning the region were over.1
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Boomgaard, P. (2013). For the Common Good: Dutch Institutions and Western Scholarship on Indonesia around 1800. In: Boomgaard, P. (eds) Empire and Science in the Making. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137334022_6
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