Kg Bantam and Kg Melayu Cocos Islands

It is intersting to note that the first villages established in the year 1827 by John Cluines Ross, the Scottish seaman and captain of the ship called BORNEO and who was a good friend of Alexander Hare, another Scottish adventurer and a former Resident and Commissioner for Banjarmasin and Borneo had been named Bantam Village and Malay Village, and names never lied, of course that goes to show that the Cocos Islanders first originated from Bantam Island, off Singapore Island, Johor and Malacca, two of the States in Peninsular Malaysia.

Some history stated that some of them had been former soldiers and convicts, many of them had fled from Alexander Hare group that left Malacca for Banjarmasin in Southern Borneo in 1811 to help the Sultan contain piracy and resistance from the Dayak and Bugis after the Dutch abandoned Banjarmasin, after two defeats by the British off Java Island.

Whoever they were originated from, they are now the Cocos Islander Community who have their own culture, religion and language.

Kg Cocos Also At Langkawi

There is a place called Kg Cocos at Pulau Dayang Bunting in Langkawi, besides the Kg Cocos at Pulau Balambangan north of Kudat, Sabah and Pulau Cocos, south of Johor, Peninsular Malaysia. A trader from Cocos Islands must have landed in these places or had some association with these places.

I had gathered from history that the Cocos Islander is somehow related to the Johor family, besides Brunei, Philippines, Indonesia, Kalimantan. Langkawi was formerly under the British administration of Sir Francis Light and of course Balambangan Island was the first British settlement in North Borneo where the Union Jack was first hoisted but had to shift because of pirates attacks on the island.

Cocos Island found in Johor Map

Why was there an island called Cocos Island at the southern tip of Johor, Malaysia?
How was Cocos Islander Community related with Johor?
Was it through the Johor and Cocos Sultanate?
It would be interesting for the historian to research more on this topic.
Could the Cocos man or Alexander Hare had stopped in Johore before going to Sabah ( formerly North Borneo) and reach Pulau Balambangan?

Pulau Balambangan was also in the history of Wali Songo or the infamous 9 Saints in Indonesia. I could not find a Pulau Balambangan in Indonesian map. Could Pulau Balambangan and Sabah had come under the Indonesian influence before through the Majapahit Kingdom?