Nuku of Tidore

Nuku
لواثق بالله الملك المنان السلطان محمد شاه امیر الدین al-Wathiq billah al-Malik al-Mannan al-Sultan Muhammad Syah Amiruddin "He who trusts in God, the King, the Ever Bestowing One, the Sultan Muhammad Syah Amiruddin"
Sultan of Tidore
Reign	1797–1805
Predecessor	Kamaluddin
Successor	Zainal Abidin
Died	14 November 1805
Regnal name Sultan Muhammad al-Mabus Amiruddin Syah
Father	Sultan Jamaluddin
Religion	Islam

Nuku (born c. 1738 – died 14 November 1805) was the nineteenth Sultan of Tidore in Maluku Islands, reigning from 1797 to 1805. He is also known under the names Sultan Muhammad al-Mabus Amiruddin Syah, Saifuddin, Jou Barakati (Master of Fortune), and Kaicili Paparangan (Prince of Battles). He led a resistance against Dutch colonialism in Maluku and Papua from 1780 which was eventually successful. Being a leader with great charisma, he gathered discontents from several ethnic groups and strove to restore Maluku to its pre-colonial division into four autonomous kingdoms. Nuku used global political conflict lines by allying with the British against the French-affiliated Dutch and helped them conquer the Dutch stronghold in Ternate in 1801. In modern Indonesia he is commemorated as a pahlawan nasional (national hero).^[1]