Assignmet 3 : THE HISTORY OF DAENDELS ROAD

NAMA : RIO ENDRY FEBRIAN

KELAS : 3 EB 17

NPM     : 26210004

Herman Willem Daendels came to Indonesia when 1806 – 1807, the defence of the Netherland colony territory became difficult. This caused by the attack of British combat fleet on several lacces, such as : Cape of Good Hope (the beginning of 1806); Batavia and Surabaya (the end of 1807). After receiving a report about the fall of Cape of Good Hope, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as King of the Netherlands summoned Daendels and gave appointed him Governor General of Java. This appointment was based on the policy that Java was a very strategic island, not only economically but also politically. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as King of the Netherlands appointed  Daendels as Governor General in Java in his letter dated January 27, 1807. Daendels received two important tasks : to defend Java from the attack of British combat fleet and to make a clean goverment in the East India Colony. That two tasks of Daendels in 3 set of instructions, as follow : one set of instructions for the Governor General (37 articles), one set for the position of Governor General and The India Council (25 articles), and a third set of of instructions for the dissolution and the foration of the India Council (6 articles).

Daendels power era on the island of Java which is only three years (1808-1811) was one dark spot of this nation's history. Pramoedya Ananta Tur, in his novel Jalan Raya Pos, Jalan Daendels, perpetuating the bitter times. With bitterness he wrote, "Indonesia is a land of slaves. Among slaves and slave nation for other nations ". History records, more than 12,000 people died from forced labor to build this road.But who would presume, behind her dark past history, Daendels actually laid the foundation for the development of urban and spatial relationships between cities in Java since the early nineteenth century until now.