Sultanate of Tidore

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Sultanate of Tidore
كسلطانن تدوري‎
Kesultanan Tidore
1081?/1450–1967
Flag of Tidore
Flag
Seal used by Sultan Amiruddin Syah c. 1803
Sultanate of Tidore in 1800
Sultanate of Tidore in 1800
CapitalTidore
Common languagesNorth Moluccan Malay[1]
Tidore
Religion
Sunni Islam
GovernmentMonarchy
Sultan,
Kië ma-kolano		 
• 1081
Kolano Syahjati (Muhammad Naqil)
• 15th century–1500s
Jamaluddin
• 1947–1967
Zainal Abdin Shah
History 
• Established
1081?/1450
• Disestablished
1967
 Succeeded by
Dutch East Indies
Today part ofIndonesia

The Sultanate of Tidore (

anti-colonial rebellion in 1780–1810, the Dutch grip on the sultanate increased until decolonization in the 1940s. Meanwhile, Tidore's suzerainty over Raja Ampat and western Papua was acknowledged by the colonial state.[4] In modern times, the sultanate has been revived as a cultural institution.[5]

Portrait of Sultan Saifuddin of Tidore, Czartoryski Museum, Kraków.

Origins

According to later historical traditions, the four kingdoms of North Maluku (

Magellan expedition in 1521.[10] By that time the sultanate lived in an uneasy and ambiguous relationship with its close neighbour Ternate. Though frequently at war, the Tidore rulers held a ritual precedence position since their daughters regularly married Ternatan sultans and princes.[11]

Genealogy of the rulers of Tidore

Geographical extent

Together, the two sultanates Ternate and Tidore exercised suzerainty over a huge area from

Patani). At times, Tidore controlled East Seram and laid claims to outlying places such as Buru and Aru.[18]

Administration

The base of Tidorese society was the soa, socio-political units headed by bobato (headmen). A bobato was a state official but also a guardian of the interests of his community. On the basic level in the outlying areas (Halmahera, etc.) were various kimelaha or gimalaha (local leaders formally appointed by the sultan), who in turn stood under sangaji (honoured princes) who lorded as vassals over various territories belonging to the Sultanate. At the center was a state council consisting of 31 members including the 27 bobato, two hukum (magistrates), one kapiten laut (sea lord), and a jojau (chief minister). Moreover, the sultan employed utusan or envoys who visited the various outer areas under Tidore's sway and collected tributes.[19] If these levies (which could be in the form of slaves or their value equivalent in massoy, nutmeg, turtle shell, and other goods) were not met, a punitive Hongi expedition would be launched on behalf of the sultan of Tidore, usually by other rajas of different regions under him.[20]

Alliance with Spain

Tidore established a loose alliance with the

Habsburg kings, the Portuguese were however able to hang on for the next 24 years and kept several forts on the island. There was also a limited presence of Catholic missionaries in Tidore, who managed to convert a few members of the elite.[22] While there was much mutual distrust between the Tidorese and the Spaniards and Portuguese, for Tidore the Spanish presence helped resist incursions by their Ternatan enemy. Nevertheless, it lost vital territories in Halmahera by the end of the 16th century, which had supplied Tidore Island with sago, a vital stock of food.[23]

Arrival of the VOC

Image of Tidore town in 1601, with Spanish and Dutch ships engaged in a fight. A mosque, a Catholic church and a small fortress can be seen.

In 1605, the Dutch of the United East India Company (VOC) took over Ambon as a part of their policy to control the lucrative trade in spices. The next step was to invade Tidore and defeat the Portuguese garrison in May in the same year. This was basically the end of the Portuguese presence in Maluku. However, the Spaniards soon retaliated; they launched a major attack on Ternate from their Philippines base in April 1606 and were assisted by the Tidorese. The enterprise was successful, the power of Ternate was curbed, and Tidore was allowed to take over certain Ternatan dependencies. This in turn alerted the VOC since Spain and the Dutch Republic were at war in Europe, and their rivalry had global implications. The VOC allied with the new Ternatan sultan and launched their own expedition in 1607 that recovered part of Ternate.[24] As a result, Ternate became heavily dependent on the Dutch, who also made incursions in Tidore over the next years and secured some coastal forts. Sultan Mole Majimu of Tidore held on to his allegiance to Spain, although some Tidorese princes leaned towards Ternate and the VOC. By this time the royal clan had split into two rivalling lineages which made for rapid throne shifts. The Spanish authorities found the sultans to be a nuisance rather than a help to the Spanish power.[25]

A relatively pro-VOC sultan,

spices for gifts to strengthen traditional ties with Tidore's traditional periphery. As a result, he was widely respected by many local populations and had little need to call on the Dutch for military help in governing the kingdom, as Ternate frequently did.[28]

Rebellion and colonial penetration

Territories associated with Ternate (red) and Tidore (orange), and Tidore vassals (light orange), at the end of the VOC era. The extent of political influence shifted over the centuries.

Tidore remained an independent kingdom, albeit with frequent Dutch interference, until the late eighteenth century. Like Ternate, Tidore allowed the Dutch spice eradication program (extirpatie) to proceed in its territories. This program, intended to strengthen the Dutch spice monopoly by limiting production to a few places, impoverished Tidore as well as its Ternate neighbour and weakened its control over its periphery. A treaty in 1768 forced Sultan Jamaluddin to cede his rights to East Seram which had been granted Tidore in 1700, which created great anger among the elite. The unrest caused the VOC authorities to depose Jamaluddin in 1779 and to force his successor Patra Alam to conclude a new contract that abrogated the old one from 1667. With this document (1780), Tidore was turned from an ally to a vassal and thus lost its independence.

Peace of Amiens in Europe changed the strategic positions in the next year already, since the Dutch were allowed to retake their positions in Maluku. After the death of Nuku in 1805, his brother, Sultan Zainal Abidin, proved unable to resist the Dutch-Ternatan attacks. Tidore was lost in 1806 and the sultan fled, finally dying in exile in 1810.[32]

Tidore was subjected to an increasing implementation of colonial rule in the 19th century. A treaty was signed in 1817 where the sultan and grandees received annual subsidies. Tidore was included in the Residency of Ternate together with Ternate, Bacan, Halmahera, and dependencies. The infamous hongi expeditions, which had eradicated unauthorized spice trees in Maluku and kept the Papuan lands in subordination, were finally abolished in 1859–1861.

Irian Barat (Papua) during the years 1956–1961, at a time when the region was still under Dutch control. After his governorship, he settled in Ambon where he died in 1967.[35][full citation needed] No new sultan was appointed. However, with the increasing interest in Indonesia for local tradition after the end of the Suharto
era, some aspects of the sultanate were taken up. Titular sultans have been chosen from among the different royal branches since 1999.

List of sultans

Kadato Kie, Kedaton of Tidore
Throne room at Kadato Kie, Soa Sio.
Kolanos and sultans of Tidore Reign
Sahjati[a]
Busamuangi
Suhu
Balibungah
Duku Madoya
Kie Matiti
Sele
Matagena
Ciri Leliatu (Jamaluddin) late 15th/early 16th century
Al-Mansur before 1512–1526
Mir (Amiruddin Iskandar Dulkarna'in) 1526–1550s
Gava[b] 1550s–1560
Gapi Baguna 1560–1599
Mole Majimu 1599–1627
Ngarolamo 1627–1634
Gorontalo 1634–1639
Saidi 1640–1657
Saifuddin 1657–1687
Hamza Faharuddin 1689–1705
Abu Falalal Mansur 1705–1708
Hasanuddin 1708–1728
Malikulmanan 1728–1757
Jamaluddin 1757–1779
Gayjira (regent) 1779–1780
Patra Alam 1780–1783
Kamaluddin 1783–1797
Nuku, Muhammad al-Mabus Amiruddin 1797–1805
Zainal Abidin 1805–1810
Muhammad Tahir 1811–1821
Ahmad al-Mansur Sirajuddin 1822–1856
Ahmad Saifuddin Alting 1856–1865
Ahmad Fathuddin 1867–1892
Iskandar Sahajuhan 1893–1905
Zainal Abidin Alting
 1947–1967
Haji Djafar Dano Junus 1999–2012
Husain Syah 2014–present

See also

Notes

  1. ^ François Valentijn (1724) mentions two early Tidorese Muslim kings, Nuruddin (c. 1343) and Hasan Syah (c. 1372), not known to the local king lists; see F. S. A. de Clercq (1890), Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate. Leiden: Brill, p. 148.
  2. ^ Tidore king list has Kië Mansur and Iskandar Sani as sultans between Mir and Gapi Baguna, though these names are not found in the contemporary sources; see F. S. A. de Clercq (1890), Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate. Leiden: Brill, p. 321.

References

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  2. ^ Trajectories of the early-modern kingdoms in eastern Indonesia
  3. ^ Sejarah Kerajaan Tidore.
  4. ^ Heather Sutherland (2021) Seaways and Gatekeepers; Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c. 1600-c. 1906. Singapore: NUS Press, p. 190-2, 225-6, 266-8, 368-70.
  5. ^ Kirsten Jäger (2018) Das Sultanat Jailolo; Die Revitalisierung von "traditionellen" politischen Gemeinwesen in Indonesien. Berlin: Lit Verlag, p. 196.
  6. ^ C. F. van Fraassen (1987), Ternate, de Molukken en de Indonesische Archipel. Leiden: Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Vol. I, pp. 16–18.
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  8. ^ F. S. A. de Clercq (1890). Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate. Leiden: Brill, p. 321.
  9. ^ P. J. B. C. Robidé van der Aa (1879). Reizen naar Nederlandsch Nieuw-Guinea. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, pp. 18–19.
  10. ^ Willard A. Hanna & Des Alwi (1990), Turbulent times past in Ternate and Tidore. Banda Naira: Rumah Budaya Banda Naira, p. 20–25.
  11. ^ Extensive genealogical explanation in C. F. van Fraassen (1987), Vol. II, pp. 13–30.
  12. ^ Leonard Andaya (1993), p. 105; P. J. B. C. Robidé van der Aa (1879), p. 19.
  13. ^ Leonard Andaya (1993), p. 105.
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  25. ^ Hubert Jacobs (1984), Documenta Molucensia, Vol. III. Rome: Jesuit Historical Institute, p. 6.
  26. ^ Leonard Andaya (1993), p. 171.
  27. ^ Leonard Andaya (1993), p. 155–56.
  28. ^ Leonard Andaya (1993), p. 170–174.
  29. ^ Muridan Widjojo (2009), pp. 52–56.
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  31. ^ Leonard Andaya (1993), pp. 235–36.
  32. ^ Muridan Widjojo (2009), pp. 88–93.
  33. ^ F. S. A. de Clercq (1890), pp. 171–182.
  34. ^ F. C. Kamma (1947–1949). "De verhouding tussen Tidore en de Papoese eilanden in legende en historie", Indonesië, IV, p. 271.
  35. ^ Menggali sejarah Papua dari Tidore

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