Abstrak / Ringkasan
During the second half of the seventeenth century, the political constellation of Java changed drastically. The dominance of Mataram in Priangan, which was previously strong, was replaced by the superiority of Banten which carried out military expansion to a number of Priangan areas, including Cirebon. However, the domination did not last long because in 1680, the Cirebon princes were more inclined to ally with VOC than Mataram or Banten. After his position was strengthened in Cirebon, the turmoil of disputes which based on the desire for power emerged from within the kraton, and grew even more after the death of Sultan SÄ•puh I in 1697. To maintain the rush en order of the regions under his supervision, VOC helped mediate the conflict and set Contract of August 4, 1699 as a solution to the problem. The Cirebon-VOC contract in 1699 was written manually and still preserved today.