Prince Diponegoro
Prince Diponegoro (1785-1855) was a Javanese prince who led the Java War (1825-1830), the largest armed challenge to Dutch colonial rule in the East Indies before the twentieth century. Fusing dynastic grievance, aristocratic resentment of Dutch encroachment, and Islamic religious authority, he mounted a broad guerrilla insurgency across central Java. The Dutch captured him under a flag of truce in 1830 and exiled him to Makassar, where he died. The war killed perhaps 200,000 Javanese; he is a national hero of Indonesia.
- Nationality: Javanese
- Roles: military_leader, religious_leader, revolutionary
