Dutch troops took a quarter tonne of gold from the Lombok palace in 1894, and with it the only manuscript of Majapahit's royal chronicle

A Balinese dynasty from Karangasem ruled Lombok from the palace at Cakranegara and grew rich on the rents of the island's Sasak people. In 1894 the Netherlands East Indies sent an army. On 25 August Balinese forces ambushed the Dutch camp at Mayura and killed more than 500 people. The Dutch shelled the palace in November and captured it on 19 November. The raja surrendered on 20 November, was exiled to Batavia and died there in May 1895. Troops looted almost a quarter of a tonne of gold, over seven tonnes of silver and jewels, a hoard called the Lombok Treasure. They also took about 500 palm-leaf manuscripts. The philologist J.L.A. Brandes catalogued them, and in 1906 they went to Leiden University. One bundle contained the Desawarnana, also called the Nagarakretagama, the 1365 poem describing Majapahit. Leiden returned that manuscript to Jakarta. In July 2023 the Dutch government transferred ownership of 478 objects to Indonesia, including the Lombok Treasure, at Leiden on 10 July. The objects are held by the Indonesian Heritage Agency and Museum Nasional in Jakarta; the Nagarakretagama manuscript is in the National Library of Indonesia as NB 9.