This can be known through various records of Europeans who have visited this island during the VOC era until the arrival of the Dutch colonial government in New Guinea.

Entering the 18th century, this island was written about in European books, about the trading aspects they had observed there.

The areas of Yapen, Waropen, and Nabire were places where Chinese, Buginese, Makassarese, Seram (Moluccans), and Europeans traders conducted barter with the inhabitants of the region.

[2] The Kurudu people produce a variety of local products including clay pottery (sempe), carvings, boats, and sago which will later be traded to various places on the north coast of Papua.

[2] The Evangelism on Kurudu Island was carried out in 1929 by Laurens Tanamal, The journey of the Evangelist Laurens Tanamal was recorded by the priest Albert Jan de Neef in a novel entitled Di Tapal Batas: Mambu Ransar, Alex Runggeary's work published by Nas Media Pustaka in Makassar on 2022.