Java War or Diponegoro War (1825-1830)

Perang Jawa atau Perang Diponegoro (1825-1830) / Java War or Diponegero War



Diponegoro War also known as the Java War (English: Java War, Netherlands: De Java Oorlog is a big war and lasted for five years (1825-1830) on the island of Java, the Indies (now Indonesia) This war is one of the Battle The largest ever experienced by the Dutch during his occupation in the archipelago, involved the Dutch troops under the leadership of General De Kock who tried to rob people in Java under the leadership of Prince Diponegoro This war, the dead Java population reached 200,000 people, while the Victim Died on the Dutch side of 8,000 Dutch troops and 7000 indigenous troops.The end of the war built Dutch control over the island of Java.\


(Diponegoro: The Leader of Javanese forces)

General cause

• People are wrapped up in various debts and various forms of taxes.
• The Dutch colonial government intervened in the political life of the kingdom.
• The people suffer, while the royal life is so special

Special Cause

• Diponegoro was knocked out of the power elite for refusing to compromise with the colonial government. Diponegoro chose to exile himself to Tegalrejo.
• The colonial government made provocations by making roads through the ancestral graves of Diponegoro

Diponegoro's forces grew stronger and became one of the troops feared by the Dutch at that time. The increasingly widespread battlefield and the various victories achieved by Diponegoro and his troops put the Dutch into a chaos, for which the Dutch held various tactics to weaken Diponegoro and his troops. Here are the tactics that the Dutch did to Diponegoro forces.

• Sultan HB II (Sultan Sepuh) who was previously exiled Raffles to Penang returned to Yogyakarta to bring peace so that the nobles who sided with Diponegoro want to return to the palace. But the plot failed because Sultan Sepuh has no authority anymore and not long after that he died.
• General de Kock persuaded the Diponegoro followers especially those who had previous powers. They are promised to get the money and position they want. The strategy was finally successful, one by one they returned to the capital and left Diponegoro.
• The next tactic is to build fortresses in the captured areas, the goal is to make the space of the Diponegoro troop less and less.
• Once pressed, the Dutch approach to Diponegoro want to be invited to peace. But there was a failure.

De Kock increasingly overwhelmed because Diponegoro increasingly more troops from the citizens of Magelang, on the other hand his government demanded him to be able to immediately stop the attacks conducted by Diponegoro.

Through a negotiation, Prince Diponegoro was finally arrested and then exiled to Makassar until he died on 8 January 1855.

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