In 1760 after developing of the new Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, the Dutch

governor of North
Java coast Nicolaas Halting ask a fort to be built in Yogyakarta.
The barracks was built on a plot provided by Sultan Hamengkubuwono I, the first
/o/t was a simple
wooden /o/t with four bastion. Later in 1767 the fortress was extended and
converted into a more
permanent structure under supervision of a Dutch architect Frans Haak. After its
finished in 1787
the fort was named Fort Rustenburg (“Resting fod" in Dutch).