Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1806, tare da Netherlands a ƙarƙashin mulkin mallaka na Faransa, Sarkin sarakuna Napoleon I ya nada ɗan'uwansa Louis Bonaparte zuwa kursiyin Dutch, wanda ya haifar da nadin Marshal Herman Willem Daendels a 1808 a matsayin babban gwamnan Dutch East Indies. A shekara ta 1811 Jan Willem Janssens ya maye gurbin Daendels, amma jim kadan bayan zuwansa sojojin Burtaniya sun mamaye tashoshin jiragen ruwa da yawa na Dutch East Indies ciki har da tsibirin Spice a 1810 da Java a shekara mai zuwa
- Thomas Stamford Raffles ya zama mataimakin gwamna. Bayan nasarar da Napoleon ya yi a 1815 Battle of Waterloo da kuma Congress of Vienna, an sake dawo da mulkin mallaka na Holland a 1816. A karkashin Yarjejeniyar Anglo-Dutch ta 1824, Yaren mutanen Holland sun tabbatar da yankunan Birtaniya kamar Bengkulu a Sumatra, don musayar ikon mallakarsu a cikin Malay Peninsula (Malaya) da Indiya ta Dutch. Iyakokin da suka haifar tsakanin tsoffin mallakar Burtaniya da Holland sun kasance a yau tsakanin Malaysia da Indonesia na zamani.