Padri War

Padri War
Part of Dutch Colonial campaigns

Battle engagements between Padri and the Dutch, 1830s
Date1803–1837
Location
Result 1st Padri War (1803–25):
  • Padri victory

2nd Padri War (1831–37):
  • Dutch victory
Territorial
changes
Dutch conquest of West Sumatra
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Sultan Arifin Muningsyah
Sultan Tangkal Alam Bagagar
(exiled to Batavia in 1833)
Major General Cochius
Colonel Stuers
Lieutenant Colonel Raaff
Lieutenant Colonel Elout
Lieutenant Colonel Krieger
Lieutenant Colonel Bauer
Lieutenant Colonel Michiels
Major Laemlin 
Major Prager
Major du Bus
Captain Poland
Captain Lange
Tuanku Imam Bonjol
Tuanku Rao 
Tuanku Tambusai
Tuanku Nan Renceh
Tuanku Lintau
Tuanku Pasaman
Tuanku Nan Alahan

The Padri War (also called the Minangkabau War) was fought from 1803 until 1837 in West Sumatra, Indonesia between the Padri and the Adat. The Padri were Muslim clerics from Sumatra who wanted to impose Sharia in Minangkabau in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The Adat comprised the Minangkabau nobility and traditional chiefs. They asked for the help of the Dutch, who intervened in 1821 and helped the nobility defeat the Padri faction.