A Distant Mirror:  Violent Public Punishment in the VOC Batavia, 1729-1739

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Asyrafi, Muhammad (2020)

A Distant Mirror: Violent Public Punishment in the VOC Batavia, 1729-1739

Master thesis | History (MA)

This thesis examines the violent colonial penal practice in VOC’s Batavia by comparing it with the penal practice in Amsterdam. This thesis argues that colonial penal practice is different compared to the penal practice in the metropole in various aspects. Using various primary sources, this thesis identifies these differences in five fields: the legal codex, the persons directly involved in the event, the location of execution, the procedure of execution, and the spectators at the event. The thesis seeks to find the extent of the use of violent measures in colonial penal practice resembles that in the metropole and to what extent does it differ.