Treaty of Bongaya

The Treaty of Bongaya (also spelled Bongaja) was signed on November 18, 1667, between Hasanuddin of Gowa, ruler of the Sultanate of Gowa, and the Dutch East India Company (VOC). In the midst of the Second Anglo-Dutch War Hasanuddin launched a war against the Sultanate of Ternate, but the Dutch were able to defeat his forces.

The treaty resulted in all non-Dutch Europeans being banned from Makassar. Only one of Hasanuddin's forts was allowed to continue to exist and the Dutch seized what later became Fort Rotterdam. Gowa was reduced to a vassal and its dependencies were transferred to the VOC.

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