i think its these states had fewer goods to trade.
Because Dutch started to control some part of them .
The Dutch
dutch
dutch
The spice trade route which is on the sea, is from china and the malay archipelago to the west. The ports in penang and bencoolen are unsuitable for that the ships will have to detour in order to get the spice there.
They had war!
-They wanted to break the dutch monopoly of trade in the Archipelago By colonizing Singapore, they would have a new trading settlement to rival the Dutch. -Singapore was located centrally and was the main trade route between the East and the West. Therefore, Singapore was the best trading centre amongst other the islands because of its strategic location at the heart of the Malay Archipelago
Dutch
1625 when the Dutch West India Company was organized.
The Dutch took control of the spice trade from the Portugese in the fifteenth century.
Portuguese, Dutch then English