Tambakbaya is a village in the Banten province on the island of Java, Indonesia.

Tambakbaya is in the district of Cibadak in the Lebak Regency in Banten.

[1] In 1813 Java was under British control and the land was being leased rather than subject to forced deliveries and contingents as it had been under the Dutch.

[2] Major Udney Yule, the British resident, was instructed by Stamford Raffles to grant equitable and moderate leases to the renter class.

In this area a drought had caused the rice crop to fail entirely.