Kammala jumla mai zuwa: 'Yan Burtaniya sun kafa sansanin su a Bencoolen a 1685 kuma a 1714 sun gina Fort Marlborough a cikin garin. Sun kuma kafa cibiyar kasuwanci a Riau, wasu a cikin yankin suna zama Settlements Settlements a Penang da Singapore, yayin da Yaren mutanen Holland suka yi fama da tashar jiragen ruwa ta Malacca daga Fotigal a 1641. A lokacin yaƙe-yaƙe na Napoleon a Turai, Masarautar Holland da yankunansu a Gabashin Indiya sun faɗi ga Jamhuriyar Faransa. Birtaniya ta kaddamar da wani
yaƙin soja a kan Yaren mutanen Holland da Faransa suna riƙe da Java da kuma kafa mulkin Birtaniya a Java. Daga shekara ta 1811 zuwa 1815, Biritaniya ce take mulkin ƙasar. An nada Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles a matsayin Mataimakin Gwamnan Java a 1811-1816. Ya kasance mai sha'awar al'adun Java da tarihi wanda a lokacin mulkinsa ya jagoranci balaguro wanda ya gano Borobudur, Trowulan da sauran wuraren binciken kayan tarihi a Java, daga baya ya rubuta "Tarihin Java" kuma ya buga shi a 1817.