Padri War | |||||||||
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Part of Dutch Colonial campaigns | |||||||||
Battle engagements between Padri and the Dutch, 1830s | |||||||||
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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.