It surprises me that countries in war for many years still have the energy to sail for 5 months till over 2 year to arrive with 1/3 of the crew, sick and tired still fighting seabattles, next on land...
A road isn't built in a day.

Can it be a benefit if Aceh isn't accepted? Do we all need to live by western standards, their time schedules, ideas about right,wrong? It doesn't feel as if there are more 'benefits' to gather, if at all.

It's strange how info of over 1500 years us safed, people always been registrated but we can't find anything back about this.
There's a reason why they left out that much. Perhaps the simple reason is the contact with Aceh is not long enough and no one cared as much about De Houtman as they did about the group who sailed North?
Most likely they fought each other most of all. Knowing where they came from, what was asked from them.
After the 1st and 2nd exledition crew members stayed behind out of free will. They wanted to stay. I assume they have offspring.

Pity these books are lost.

There's one called Revolusi the author travelked around spoke to people and tried to find out more about history this way.
I'll see if he wrote more.