[3] His paternal grandmother, Raja Putri Putih, was the daughter of Sultan Mansur Shah II of Pahang.
Sultan Muzaffar Shah II then also permitted the Dutch company to do business and buy tin in Perak.
Since then, the power and colonies of Aceh in the Malay Peninsula began to gradually weaken and were released one by one until for many years only Perak remained under Acehnese control.
Jan Dircxen Puijit went in to meet with Sultan Muzaffar Shah II and presented a letter and gift from the Dutch Governor (Johan van Twist) who was in Malacca.
Sultan Muzaffar Shah II welcomed and returned the gift brought by Jan Dircxen Puijit with a sword and a dagger and awarded him the title Seri Johan Pahlawan.
Sultan Muzaffar Shah II also stated that he felt very honored to buy merchandise from the Netherlands on the condition that each purchase was authorized by credit.
[1] However, the proposal given by the Dutch Governor to the Sultan of Perak to prohibit other nations from buying tin products was still pending.
It got to a point where the Sultan of Perak threatened to take back the house that had been given to the Dutch during the reign of Jan Dircxen Puijit.
[1] In 1650, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies Cornelis van der Lijn sent a representative – Joan Truijtman – to Aceh.