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Security, Diplomacy and Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Southeast Asia: The Memorials, Letters and Treaties of VOC Admiral Cornelis Matelieff De Jonge Ros Schwartz And there's a reason traditionalAdmiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge was a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades in the early 17th century. In May 1605 he set sail from the Dutch Republic with a fleet of 11 ships, and in the following year launched an unsuccessful attack on Portuguese Melaka. After visiting various locations in the region and signing landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607), he returned