Prince of Diponegoro

Name: Diponegoro
Small Name: Raden Mas Ontowiryo
Born: Yogyakarta, 11 November 1785
Died: Ujungpandang, January 8, 1855
Father:Sutan Buwono III
Signs of Honor: National hero

Prince Diponegoro (1785-1855)
Warrior Be Clean

Born from a family of Yogyakarta Sultanate, has a spirit of leadership and heroism. His heart was clean and as a prince eventually led him to be a must appear in front in defense of family honor, the kingdom, the people and his nation from Dutch colonialism.
But the risk of heart cleanliness, he was arrested by the Dutch with a sly way, engineering negotiations. But even so, he will never regret that he died with a peaceful heart, not indebted to his nation, his people, his family, especially to himself.

Honesty, simplicity, humility, probity, leadership, heroism, that's perhaps a little character who captured when tracing the journey of our hero struggle who was born in Yogyakarta on November 11, 1785, this.

Prince Diponegoro whose original name Raden Mas Ontowiryo, this shows the simplicity or humility that when he refused his father's wishes, Sultan Hamengkubuwono III to make him king. He refused to remember the birth mother is not the queen.


For those greedy people who will position, the rejection must be very unfortunate. Because of greedy people, let alone be given, if necessary, seize anything done. Seeing this rejection, very clearly the nature of greed is not an iota of this Prince. There is only a pure heart. He did not want to accept what he thinks he is not entitled. Dipertunjukkannya That's the nature of the father's rejection of the bid.

Instead, he will also fight to the death what they are entitled according to him. Nature is evident when watching his attitude when he saw the Dutch in Yogyakarta treatment around the year 1920. His heart could not receive more when they saw a Dutch intervention in matters of the greater kingdom of Yogyakarta. Various regulation made by the Dutch government thinks highly degrading Javanese kings. This attitude is also very clearly show the nature of his leadership and heroism.

As we know that the Dutch at every opportunity always use the political 'belah' solve it. In Yogyakarta itself too, of Prince Diponegoro to see, that the nobles there often in Dutch sheep race. When these two nobles who played off-sheep mutual suspicion, the royal lands were more and more taken by the Dutch for plantation businessmen from the country's windmills.

Seeing this situation, a show of Prince Diponegoro was not happy and decided to leave the palace to settle in Tegalrejo onwards. Seeing such a manner, even accused him of preparing the Dutch rebellion. Thus on June 20, 1825, the Dutch do Tegalrejo invasion. Thus Java War had already begun.

In the war in this Tegalrejo, Prince and his troops were forced to retreat, and selajutnya began to build a new defense in Selarong. Carried out guerrilla war where troops moved around a lot to keep his troops hard to destroy the Dutch. This guerrilla warfare tactics in the first years of superior forces and make a lot of trouble the Dutch.

However, after the Dutch changed tactics by building forts in the area already occupied, finally Diponegoro any troop movements could no longer as free as before. In addition, the Dutch were always persuade the characters resistance to stop the war. Finally, starting from the year 1829 any resistance from the people less.

Dutch who occasionally still get resistance from the army of Diponegoro, in many ways continue to try to catch the prince. Dipergunaan was even a contest. Gulden 50,000 gift given to anyone who can catch Diponegoro. Diponegoro himself never to give up even though its strength weakened.

Because of the various ways by the Dutch never succeeded, so cunning and dirty game was done. Diponegoro was invited to Magelang to negotiate, with no assurance that any agreement, Diponegoro may return to a safe place. Diponegoro an honest and clean-hearted, believe the good intentions proposed by the Dutch. What is immoral, the invitation is apparently negotiating a scheme to capture this prince. In negotiations in Magelang on March 28, 1830, he was arrested and exiled to Manado what would later be transferred back to the Ujungpandang.

After about 25 years was arrested in Fort Rotterdam, Ujungpandang, finally, on January 8, 1855 he died. His remains were buried there. He died as a hero of a nation that never give up on oppresion human. ► juka
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