[3] In that position he was ordered to block the approaches to the Texel to the Royal Navy at the occasion of the Vlieter incident, but failed to do so due to adverse weather.

On 27 February 1801 promoted to captain, he departed 3 January 1802 to the East Indies, commanding the frigate Eendracht,[5] where he took over the Moluccas from the British after the Peace of Amiens on 30 September.

Daendels arrived in Batavia on April 10, 1808, after having made the journey by way of New York, and relieved Governor-General Albertus Henricus Wiese.

[8] He was appointed by Daendels as vice-president of the Council of the Dutch East Indies, and charged with command of the troops belonging to the military district of Batavia.

As no new ships arrived from the Netherlands, Buyskes was forced to have small vessels built to secure trade, and combat piracy with flotillas composed of them.

On 6 December 1808 Buyskes accepted command of the naval and army forces in Surabaya, where Fort Lodewijk was built on Madura Strait under his supervision.

She was on 10 February 1810 attacked near Bermuda by an English brig, the HMS Thistle (lt. Peter Proctor), armed with 12 guns (10 6-pdrs, 2 carronades).

On 20 November 1814 Buyskes together with Cornelis Theodorus Elout and Godert van der Capellen, was appointed Commissioners-General of the Dutch East Indies with orders to take over the administration of this colony from the British.

However, due to the events of the Hundred Days, the voyage was delayed, so that Buyskes first left on 29 November 1815, when they sailed from the Texel in his squadron of 7 vessels.

On Haruku, in the village of Pelauw, a unit under the command of major Meijer committed an atrocity by the summary execution or 23 captured notables.

[11][d] The campaign ended with several other executions of sometimes doubtful legality (although Pattimura himself was tried and convicted for the murders of the Resident of Saparua and his family, and hanged on 16 December 1817[13]).