Perjuangan sultan hasanuddin wikipedia english

He was proclaimed as Indonesian National Hero on 6 November During this period, the Kingdom of Gowa was the sole large east Indonesian kingdom which was not yet colonized by the Dutch. Makassar, after all, was a powerful kingdom, full of combative folk, which, because of its unbreakable power and strong fortresses, despised our nation as a kind of Goliath.

They mocked the peace they had made with us and caused trouble to our people on and around Ambon. They regularly attacked us there, as a result of which many of our people had died. The Makassarese even inspired great fear among their mighty neighbors, and many kingdoms, islands and fortifications stood under their control.

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The kingdom of Makassar itself is equipped with strong castles and many fortresses to repel possible enemies. The conflict between the Makassar and the VOC had started as early as , when 15 Dutch sailors were massacred after the company had taken a number of Makassarese nobles hostage in order to force the Makassarese king into honoring his debts to them.

War would ebb and flow between the two powers for over fifty years, as the Dutch were bent on having a complete monopoly of the spice trade, from which Gowa also derived its prosperity. With that goal in mind it was practically impossible for either side to obtain a workable permanent compromise, as the VOC would not tolerate any commercial and by extension, military rival in the region.

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In order to resist Dutch encroachments, Hasanuddin made every effort to strengthen his military forces. Already Makassar was a cosmopolitan society with a large population of Europeans, of which the Portuguese were the most numerous, numbering nearly 2, The large numbers of European experts available allowed Makassar to greatly modernize their army and navy; for example by the Makassarese ordnance was managed by an Englishmen who had converted into Islam.

The first conflict between Hasanudin and the Dutch were fought over the company's spice monopoly in Ambon ; this escalated into a blockade of the harbor of Makassar by the VOC fleet between — As the war was costly and disrupted the spice trade both sides came into an agreement, signing a treaty on 2 February