Tambakbaya is a village in the

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province on the island of

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, Indonesia.

Location

Tambakbaya is in the district of Cibadak in the Lebak Regency in Banten. As of 2010 the village had a population of 5,469.

Historical

In 1813 Java was under British control and the land was being leased rather than subject to forced deliveries and contingents as it had been under the Dutch. Major Udney Yule, the British resident, was instructed by

Stamford Raffles Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British Colonial Office, colonial official who served as the List of governors of the Dutch East Indies, governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieut ...

to grant equitable and moderate leases to the renter class. All the half-yearly rents in the Bantam Residency due on 1 July 1813 were paid on time apart from those due from Pontang,

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, Tambakbaya and Trate(?). In this area a drought had caused the rice crop to fail entirely.

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