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Despite the eventual Dutch dominance over Portuguese, Spanish, or English involvement in the region, the VOC was continually far outstripped by Chinese merchant activity in the region. The volume of trade conducted by Chinese merchants at Batavia alone exceeded that by Dutch merchants throughout the entirety of the region.<ref>[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 24.</ref>
Despite the eventual Dutch dominance over Portuguese, Spanish, or English involvement in the region, the VOC was continually far outstripped by Chinese merchant activity in the region. The volume of trade conducted by Chinese merchants at Batavia alone exceeded that by Dutch merchants throughout the entirety of the region.<ref>[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 24.</ref>
==Kota Tua (Old Batavia)==
The center of old Batavia is today known as Kota Tua, or "old town." A number of the chief buildings organized around the central town square are today maintained or restored as museums. The old city hall of Batavia also housed the court council and municipal council. A Neoclassical building erected beginning in [[1627]] under governor-general Jan Pieterzoon Coen, the old city hall is now home to the Jakarta History Museum. The second-oldest building on the square is today home to a restaurant known as Café Batavia. And the former site of the [[Dutch Church, Batavia|Old Dutch Church]] (and of its successor, the New Dutch Church) is now the site of the Wayang Museum, a museum of Indonesian traditional puppet theatre.
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==References==
==References==
*Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800'', Hong Kong University Press (2011), 233-234.
*Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800'', Hong Kong University Press (2011), 233-234.
*Plaques on-site.
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