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Introduction:
The pod is in 1641, when the Dutch ceeded Malacca to the Johor Sultanate. In the next year, a treaty was signed in which the Dutch would promise not to invade Malaysian kingdoms. As this is mostly about Malaysia, the effects on history in Europe is not too much. The Dutch made agreements with other Malay states and traded with them. In 1670, a Dutch trading centre was set up in Perak and over the years, several other trading centres were also set up in the Malay kingdoms.
The first butterflies arrive around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, when the Brtish, instead of taking Malacca [in otl Dutch colonized], take Java and ruled there for about 20 years before being returned to the Netherlands.
In 1803, this meant that the expedition of Linois never stopped at Java and captured a slightly higher amount of British merchant ships. Linios operated out of Pondicherry.
In the meantime, the British took Penang in 1786 and Singapore in 1819.
In the 19th century, the friendly relations between Johor and Holland resulted in an alliance. As a result, the Aceh colonization attempt never occurred. The father of Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor, realizing that his kingdom would be colonized, suggested that he modernize his sultanate. He sent his son on a trip to Holland to learn about European politics, weapons and culture and he made an agreement with other Malay kingdoms to unite Malaysia. He made his country more like western Europe and Japan, but without undermining the traditional culture and Islam. His son signed an alliance with Germany to modernize its military and alliances with Japan, China and the Ottomans.
In the meantime, the modernization began when Abu Bakar took power. In 1870, the Malaysian navy got its first steamship and 5 gunboats. It received its first corvette in 1872. For many years, it was commandered by a Dutch, Pels Rijcken, who earlier taught the Japanese the principles of a modern navy [navigation, cannon and measurements] to Baifuku officers such as Katsu Kaishu. With his country being friendly to the Malays as well, he decided to impliment the same naval teachings to Malaysia. In 1875, it received two ironclads and by the end of the decade, it had some 15 warships in total, excluding gunboats and sailing vessels.
The first steam powered ships of the Malaysian navy


Just to tell you, these warships are named KD Johor and KD Melaka.
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