Diplomatic letters discovered in the Daily Journals
The letters were exchanged between hundreds of Asian kings, princes, regents and other dignitaries and the VOC's Supreme Government in Batavia Castle. One of the most remarkable “hidden collections” are the letters of the Kings and Phrakhlang (minister of external relations and finances) of the Kingdom of Siam (Post-1932, Thailand).
The implementation of this digitization program will take place on this Sejarah Nusantara website with a searchable database of all identified letters, and a geographical visualization of the reconstructed document flow covering 200 different locations. A few of the most remarkable letters will be translated in English and Indonesian and published in the Harta Karun (Hidden Treasures) section of the website.
The project will be realized in six months from July until December 2014.
DutchCulture and the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta support this project and have assigned grants to help realize these objectives.
Also Leiden University supports the project and provides student Simon Kemper to assist in the realization.