Indonesian monarchies
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Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which the office of head of state is usually held until death or abdication and is often hereditary and includes a royal house. In some cases, the monarch is elected...

, past and present, in Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

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  • Aceh
    Aceh Sultanate
    The Sultanate of Aceh, officially the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam was a sultanate centered in the modern area of Aceh Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, which was a major regional power in the 16th and 17th centuries, before experiencing a long period of decline...

    : In the northern region of Sumatra, the Sultanate of Achin or Atjeh was founded at the end of the 15th century. A powerful Islamic state
    Islamic State
    An Islamic state is a type of government, in which the primary basis for government is Islamic religious law...

     in the 16th and 17th centuries, Achin ...
  • Adonara
    Adonara
    Adonara is an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, located east of the larger island of Flores in the Solor Archipelago. To the east lies Lembata, formerly known as Lomblen. It is the highest of the islands of the archipelago, reaching an altitude of 1,659 metres, and it has an area of...

    : A state on the volcanic island of the same name ...
  • Aga Nonsin
    Tanette
    Tanette was an Indonesian monarchy founded around 1547.- Rulers :*Puange 1547?-?*Datu Gollaya Lamarumpia ?-?*Topalannyari ?-?*Lamamula Daeng Limba ?-?*Daeng Ibrahim ?-?*Mapatjantji Daeng Matayan Matinrowe ri Sombapopa ?-?...

  • Amabi
    Amabi
    Amabi was a traditional principality in West Timor in the currently East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. From at least the 17th century to 1917, Amabi played a role in the rivalries between the Portuguese and Dutch colonials on Timor Island.- History :...

    : A state in West Timor (Timor Loro Manu) which formed in 1917 the larger Kupang
    Kupang
    Not to be confused with Tanjung Kupang in JohoreKupang is the provincial capital of East Nusa Tenggara province in southeast Indonesia....

     state ...
  • Amanatun
    Amanatun
    Amanatun was an Atoni princedom situated in what is today Indonesian West Timor, which existed up to 1962. It was also known as the princedom of Onam...

    : A state in West Timor (Timor Loro Manu). The sovereignty was altered in 1962. The palace of the Raja moved from Nunkolo to SoE in 1952 ...
  • Amanuban
    Amanuban
    Amanuban was a traditional princedom in West Timor, Indonesia. It is nowadays included in the regency Timor Tengah Selatan. In the late colonial period, according to an estimate in 1930, Amanuban covered 2,075 square kilometers. The centre of the princedom since the nineteenth century was...

    : A state in West Timor (Timor Loro Manu). The palace of the Raja is called Sonaf Naik (Big Palace) ...
  • Amarasi
    Amarasi
    Amarasi was a traditional princedom in West Timor, in present-day Indonesia. It had an important role in the political history of Timor during the 17th and 18th century, being a client state of the Portuguese colonialists, and later subjected to the Netherlands East Indies.- Early history :The...

    : A state in West Timor (Timor Loro Manu) ...
  • Ambeno
    Ambeno
    The Ambeno was a traditional kingship on the north coast of Timor, among the Atoni people. Its area is now in the Oecusse district of East Timor. The capital was in Pantar Macasse....

    , Ambenu, Ambeno Mosu Talip: A state in West Timor ...
  • Arun
    Arun, Sumatra
    Arun was a more or less vassal state of the Sultanate of Aceh, now Indonesia, in the Meureudu area of Sumatra....

    : A state more or less vassal of the Sultanate of Aceh, in the Meureudu area of Sumatra. The state was part of the Federation of the XII Hulubalangs ...
  • Asahan
    Asahan Sultanate
    The Sultanate of Asahan was a Malay sultanate from approximately 1630 CE until 1946 CE. It was located in the north-east of the island of Sumatra, in what is now Indonesia and covered what is now the Asahan Regency....

    : Asahan, in east Sumatra, was founded as a state at the end of the 17th century by a son of the Sultan of Aceh. The state represented ...

B

  • Badung: A state created as the result of the fall of the Mojopahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states.
  • Bangli: A state founded after the fall of the Mojopahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states.
  • Banten Sultanate: Founded in the early 16th century on the collapse of the Majapahit Empire by the son of the King-Priester of Cirebon, the Sultanate of Banten, in western Java.
  • Bima
    Bima
    Bima is a city on the eastern coast of the island Sumbawa in central Indonesia's province West Nusa Tenggara, and the largest city on the island. In 2010 the municipality counted some 142,443 people, separate from the adjoining Regency of Bima with 407,636 population...

    : A state existing in the 17th century on Sumbawa island.
  • Bone
    Bone state
    Bone was a sultanate in the south-west peninsula of Sulawesi , now part of modern-day Indonesia...

     (also spelled Boni): In the Bugi region of the southwestern Celebes (Sulawesi Selatan). The state was founded in 1634, suppressed in 1905, restored in 1931.
  • Buleleng
    Buleleng
    Buleleng is a regency of Bali, Indonesia. It has an area of 1,365.88 km2 and population of 577,644 . Its regency seat is Singaraja....

    : A state created as the result of the fall of the Mojopahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states.

C

  • Cirebon: A state founded in 1478 as a result of the fall of the Mojopahit Empire, split into 4 lineages in 1662 with their own land and palace (Kraton) in Cirebon.

D

  • Deli
    Sultanate of Deli
    Deli is a 1,820 km² state in east Sumatra founded in 1630. A tributary kingdom from 1630 until 1814, the state became a sultanate in 1814 when acquiring independence from Sultanate of Siak....

    : A 1,820 km² state in east Sumatra founded in 1630. A Rajadom from 1630 until 1814, the state became a sultanate in 1814 when acquiring independence from Siak.

G

  • Gianyar: A state created as the result of the fall of the Mojopahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states.
  • Gorontalo
    Gorontalo (province)
    Gorontalo is a province of Indonesia on the northern part of Sulawesi. The province was established in December 2000 after being split from North Sulawesi province...

    : A state and town in the Northern Celebes (Sulawesi Utara), founded in 1667 and suppressed in 1889.
  • Gowa
    Gowa
    Gowa is a region in the province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is a "level 2 district," with an area of 1,883 km² and a population of approximately 500,000 people...

    : A state founded in the Makassar region of southwestern Celebes before 1300.

J

  • Jambi: A 53,206 km² state in the south of Sumatra, founded in 1690 and suspended by the Dutch in 1901.
  • Jembrana

K

  • Karangasem: A state founded after the fall of the Mojopahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states among 9 of his chiefs among ...
  • Kisar
    Kisar
    Kisar, also known as Yotowawa, is a small island in the Southwestern Moluccas in Indonesia.-Description:It is located to the northeast of Timor Island in an area of great tectonic activity....

    : An island-state on the north of East Timor, locally named Yotowawa and sometime spelled also Kisser ...
  • Kluang
    Kluang
    Kluang is a town and district located roughly in the middle of the state of Johor in Malaysia. Kluang lies about 110 km north of Johor Bahru, east-southeast of Batu Pahat, west of Mersing and south of Segamat...

    : A state more or less vassal of the Sultanate of Aceh, in the region of Sumatra ...
  • Klungkung
    Klungkung
    Klungkung is the smallest regency of Bali, Indonesia. It has an area of 315 km2 and population of 169,906 . Its regency seat is Semarapura....

    : A premier state born in 1352 after the fall of the Mojopahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states among 9 of his ...
  • Kubu: A state founded in 1772 in West Borneo ...
  • Kupang
    Kupang
    Not to be confused with Tanjung Kupang in JohoreKupang is the provincial capital of East Nusa Tenggara province in southeast Indonesia....

    : A federation created in 1917 composed of the principalities of Amabi, Amaabi OEfeto, Foenay, Kupang Helong, Sonbai Kecil and TaEbenu with an elected monarch ...
  • Kutai
    Kutai
    Kutai is the traditional name of a historic region in East Kalimantan in Indonesia on Borneo, a Dayak people of the region with a language of the same name and their historic states. Today the name is preserved in the names of three regencies in East Kalimantan, the Kutai Kartanegara Regency, the...

    : Initially called Katanegara, the state was called Ku Tei or Big Kingdom by the Chinese. The rulers converted to Islam in the 18th century. The state was abolished.

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  • Lala
    Lala
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  • Langsa
    Langsa
    Langsa is a city in Aceh, Indonesia. It is also called Kota Langsa in Indonesian. The city covers an area of 262.41 square kilometres and according to the 2000 census had a population of 117,256 people....

    , Langsar: A state more or less vassal of the Sultanate of Aceh, in the region of Sumatra
  • Larantuka
    Larantuka
    Larantuka is a subdistrict of East Flores Regency, on the eastern end of Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Like much of the region, Larantuka has a strong a colonial Portuguese influence...

    : A 3,300 km² state in the Flores islands, founded c1400 ...
  • Laura: A state on the island of Sumba ...
  • Limboto
    Limboto
    Limboto is a town in Indonesia and the regency seat of The Regency of Gorontalo...

    : A state and town in the Northern Celebes (Sulawesi Utara), founded in 1667 and suppressed in 1895
  • Lio
    Lio
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    : A state in the Flores islands ...
  • Lise
    Lise
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    : A state in the Flores islands ...
  • Lombok
    Lombok
    Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east...

    : A state-island in Bali that became independent after the fall of the Mojopahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states ...
  • Lore
  • Luwu
    Luwu
    The Kingdom of Luwu is the oldest kingdom in South Sulawesi. In 1889, the Dutch Governor of Makassar placed Luwu’s heyday between the tenth and fourteenth centuries AD, but offered no evidence. The La Galigo, an epic poem in an archaic form of the Bugis language, is the likely source of Braam...

    : A state founded before 1600 in the Bugi region of the Southern Celebes ...

M

  • Majene
    Majene
    Majene is the capital city of Majene County , located in the province of West Sulawesi , Indonesia.- People :...

    : A state in the Mandar region in the Southern Celebes ...
  • Makassar
    Makassar
    Makassar, is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island. From 1971 to 1999, the city was named Ujung Pandang, after a precolonial fort in the city, and the two names are often used interchangeably...

  • Mamuju
    Mamuju
    Mamuju is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi. The city was formerly part of South Sulawesi province.- Education :Education in Mamuju extends up to SMA III and people from surrounding areas will travel to Mamuju to further their education...

    : A state in the Mandar region in the Southern Celebes ...
  • Manggarai: A state in the Flores islands, founded in 1759. From 1762 until 1815 and from 1851 until 1907, Manggarai was part of the Sultanate of Bima ...
  • Mangkunegaran
    Mangkunegaran
    Mangkunegaran is a small hereditary Grand duchy located within the region of Surakarta in Indonesia.It was established in 1757 by Raden Mas Said, when he submitted his army to Pakubuwana III in February, and swore allegiance to the rulers of Surakarta, Yogyakarta, and the Dutch East Indies Company,...

    : A 2,579.98 km² state founded on 17/3/1757 in the Sultanate of Surakarta ...
  • Mappa
    Mappa
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    : A state in the Toraja region of the Southern Celebes ...
  • Marang
    Marang
    The marang , also called johey oak, green pedalai, madang, tarap, terap, timadang, or breadfruit cousin, is a tree native to Borneo and Palawan. It is closely related to the jackfruit, cempedak, and breadfruit trees.It is an evergreen tree growing to 25 m tall...

    : A state and town in the Makassar region in the Southern Celebes ...
  • Minangkabau: The most powerful sultanate in Sumatra between the 12th century and the 17th century

N

  • Napu (Celebes): A state in the Middle Celebes.
  • Napu (Sumba): A state on the island of Sumba.
  • Nita
    Nita
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    : A state in the Flores islands.

P

  • Pakualaman
    Pakualaman
    Pakualaman is a small hereditary principality within the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. It was created in 1812 when Natakusuma was rewarded for helping the British quell the conflict in Yogyakarta in June 1812...

    : A 417.62 km² state founded on 22 June 1812 or 17 March 1813 in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta in Java.
  • Pineueng & Peukan Baro-Beukan Shot
    Pineueng & Peukan Baro-Beukan Shot
    Pineung and Peukan Baro Peukan Shot is one of Sultanate of Aceh's territories....

    : A state more or less vassal of the Sultanate of Aceh, in the Sigli area of Sumatra.
  • Pontianak
    Pontianak, Indonesia
    Pontianak is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan. It is a medium-size industrial city on the island of Borneo. Pontianak occupies an area of 107.82 km² in the delta of the Kapuas River...

    : The state of Pontianak was created in Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat) in 1771, but was elevated as a sultanate only in 1778 by the Raja of Riau.

S

  • Sambas: A state in West Borneo ...
  • Serdang: A state in East Sumatra (Sumatera Timur), independent from Siak on 16/8/1862.
  • Siak
    Siak
    Siak may refer to:*Asiagh , a gotra/clan of Jats found in India.*Eric Low Siak Meng, a Singaporean Chinese politician.*Siak Regency, a regency of Riau, Indonesia.*Siak River, a river in Sumatra, Indonesia....

    : A small state in East Sumatra found in 1723, split from Johor Empire.
  • Sonbai
    Sonbai
    Sonbai was an Indonesian princely dynasty that reigned over various parts of West Timor from at least the 17th century until the 1950s...

    : A dynasty in West Timor
    West Timor
    West Timor is the western and Indonesian portion of the island of Timor and part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara, .During the colonial period it was known as "Dutch Timor" and was a centre of Dutch loyalists during the Indonesian National Revolution...

     which was divided in Sonbai Besar
    Sonbai Besar
    Sonbai Besar or Greater Sonbai was an extensive princedom of West Timor, in present-day Indonesia, which existed from 1658 to 1906 and played an important role in the history of Timor.-Origins of the polity:...

     and Sonbai Kecil
    Sonbai Kecil
    Sonbai Kecil or Lesser Sonbai was an Atoni princedom in West Timor, now included in Indonesia. It existed from 1658 to 1917, when it merged into a colonial creation, the zelfbesturend landschap Kupang.-Migration to Kupang:...

    .
  • Sonbai Kecil
    Sonbai Kecil
    Sonbai Kecil or Lesser Sonbai was an Atoni princedom in West Timor, now included in Indonesia. It existed from 1658 to 1917, when it merged into a colonial creation, the zelfbesturend landschap Kupang.-Migration to Kupang:...

    : A state in West Timor which formed the larger Kupang state along with the states of TaEbenu, Foenay, Amabi, Amaabi OEfeto and Kupang Helong. Kupang was a remnant.
  • Surakarta: A 3,635 km² state in Java founded in 1755 after the state of Mataram split into two states.

T

  • Tabanan: is a kingdom in central Bali, built by "Shri Arya Kenceng" the chief of the Majapahit Army who attacked the "Bali Kuna" kingdom in the 14th century. Then for 21 generation his descendant ruled Tabanan.
  • Ternate
    Sultanate of Ternate
    The Sultanate of Ternate was originally named the Kingdom of Gapi, but later change the name base of its capital, Ternate. The sultanate is one of the oldest Muslim kingdoms in Indonesia, established by Baab Mashur Malamo in 1257...

    : A 65 km² state in the Moluccas founded in the 13th century by people from Djaïlolo (today Jailolo
    Jailolo (town)
    Jailolo is a town and former sultanate on Halmahera in Indonesia's Maluku Islands. It is located on the island's west coast approximately 20 km north of Ternate. Jailolo is a small port that serves Halmahera's northwestern coastal villages....

    ). Ternate became the premier state of the Moluccas in 1380 over Djailolo.
  • Tidore
    Sultanate of Ternate
    The Sultanate of Ternate was originally named the Kingdom of Gapi, but later change the name base of its capital, Ternate. The sultanate is one of the oldest Muslim kingdoms in Indonesia, established by Baab Mashur Malamo in 1257...


U

  • Ubud
    Ubud
    Ubud is a town on the Indonesian island of Bali in Ubud District, located amongst rice paddies and steep ravines in the central foothills of the Gianyar regency...

    : A Raja family in the principality of Gianyar in southeast Bali.
  • Unu, a constituent (with Bambi) of the Sultanate of Aceh in Sigli

W

  • Wajo Kingdom
    Wajo Kingdom
    Wajo Kingdom was an old monarchy in Indonesia founded ca.1450 in the Bugis south of Sulawesi island. It is now the Wajo Regency, a regency of South Sulawesi province of Indonesia....

    : A state founded c1450 by refugees by Luwu in the Bugi region of the Southwestern Celebes (Sulawesi Selatan). A kind of aristocratic republic governed by a council.
  • Wehali
    Wehali
    Wehali is the name of a traditional kingdom at the southern coast of Central Timor, now in the Republic of Indonesia. It is often mentioned together with its neighbouring sister kingdom, as Wewiku-Wehali...

    : A kingdom in the southern part of Central Timor, regarded by the Timorese as the centre of their political culture.

Y

  • Yogyakarta
    Yogyakarta Sultanate
    Yogyakarta Sultanate is a Javanese monarchy in the province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.-History:...

    : In 1755, the Sultanate of Mataram in Java split into two states: Yogyakarta and Surakarta. Both states were subject to the indirect rule of the Dutch until 1949 when Indonesia.
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