Nuku | |||||
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Sultan of Tidore | |||||
Reign | 1797–1805 | ||||
Predecessor | Kamaluddin | ||||
Successor | Zainal Abidin | ||||
Died | 14 November 1805 | ||||
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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]
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