This is a list of
monarchies, past and present, in
Indonesia.
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Aceh
Aceh ( ), officially the Aceh Province ( ace, Nanggroë Acèh; id, Provinsi Aceh) is the westernmost province of Indonesia. It is located on the northernmost of Sumatra island, with Banda Aceh being its capital and largest city. Granted a s ...
: 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 in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Adonara: A state on the volcanic island of the same name ...
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Amabi: A state in West Timor (Timor Loro Manu) which formed in 1917 the larger
Kupang state ...
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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. The area once included one of the best ports where the commercially important sandalwood was load ...
: 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 ...
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Amanuban
Amanuban was a traditional princedom in West Timor, Indonesia. It lay in the regency (kabupaten) Timor Tengah Selatan. In the late colonial period, according to an estimate in 1930, Amanuban covered 2,075 square kilometers. The centre of the prin ...
: A state in West Timor (Timor Loro Manu). The palace of the Raja is called Sonaf Naik (Big Palace) ...
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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 th ...
: A state in West Timor (Timor Loro Manu) ...
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Ambeno, Ambenu, Ambeno Mosu Talip: A state in West Timor ...
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Arun: 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 ...
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Asahan: 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 ...
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Badung: A state created as the result of the fall of the Majapahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states.
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Bangli
Bangli Regency is the one and only landlocked regency ('' kabupaten'') of Bali, Indonesia. It covers an area of 520.81 km2 and had a population of 215,353 at the 2010 Census and 258,721 at the 2020 Census. Its regency seat is the town of Ba ...
: A state founded after the fall of the Majapahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states.
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Banten: 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.
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Bima: A state existing in the 17th century on Sumbawa island.
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Bone (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.
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Buleleng: A state created as the result of the fall of the Majapahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states.
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Buton (also spelled Butung): Lie on In the southeast Celebes (Sulawesi Tenggara). The state was founded in 1332.
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Cirebon: A state founded in 1478 as a result of the fall of the Majapahit Empire, split into 4 lineages in 1662 with their own land and palace (Kraton) in Cirebon.
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Deli
Deli may refer to:
* Delicatessen, a shop selling specially prepared food, or food prepared by such a shop
* Sultanate of Deli, a former sultanate in North Sumatra, Indonesia
Places
* Deli, Boyer-Ahmad, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Pr ...
: 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.
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Gianyar: A state created as the result of the fall of the Majapahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states.
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Gorontalo: A state and town in the Northern Celebes (Sulawesi Utara), founded in 1667 and suppressed in 1889.
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Gowa: A state founded in the Makassar region of southwestern Celebes before 1300.
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Iha: Formerly an Islamic kingdom located in Saparua land, Maluku.
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Jambi
Jambi is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the east coast of central Sumatra and spans to the Barisan Mountains in the west. Its capital and largest city is Jambi. The province has a land area of 50,160.05 km2, and a sea area of 3, ...
: A 53,206 km² state in the south of Sumatra, founded in 1690 and suspended by the Dutch in 1901.
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Kandis: This kingdom is estimated to be established c. 1 BCE, believed to be the oldest kingdom in Sumatra and the archipelago so far, located in Koto Alang, in the area of Lubuk Jambi, Kuantan Singingi Regency, Riau.
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Karangasem: A state founded after the fall of the Majapahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states among 9 of his chiefs among ...
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Kisar
Kisar, also known as ''Yotowawa'', is a small island in the Southwestern Moluccas in Indonesia, located to the northeast of Timor Island. Most of the island is included within the Southernmost Islands District ('' Kecamatan Pulau Pulau Terselatan ...
: An island-state on the north of East Timor, locally named Yotowawa and sometime spelled also Kisser ...
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Klungkung: A premier state born in 1352 after the fall of the Majapahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states among 9 of his ...
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Kubu: A state founded in 1772 in West Borneo ...
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Kupang: A federation created in 1917 composed of the principalities of Amabi, Amaabi OEfeto, Foenay, Kupang Helong, Sonbai Kecil and TaEbenu with an elected monarch ...
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Kutai: Initially called Kutai Kartanegara, the state was called Ku Tei or Big Kingdom by the Chinese. It was known as the first Hindu kingdom in present-Indonesia known as the
Kutai Martadipura Kingdom founded by king
Kudungga in the 4th century CE, then the
Sultanate of Kutai Kartanegara ing Martadipura was formed later in the 15th century after the royalties converted to Islam.
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Langsa: A state more or less vassal of the Sultanate of Aceh, in the region of Sumatra.
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Larantuka
Larantuka () is a ''kecamatan'' (district) and the seat capital 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. The town ...
: A 3,300 km² state in the Flores islands, founded c1400 ...
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Laura
Laura may refer to:
People
* Laura (given name)
* Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert
Places Australia
* Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula
* Laura, South Australia
* Laura Bay, a bay on ...
: A state on the island of Sumba ...
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Limboto: A state and town in the Northern Celebes (Sulawesi Utara), founded in 1667 and suppressed in 1895
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Lio: A state in the Flores islands ...
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Lise: A state in the Flores islands ...
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Lombok: A state-island in Bali that became independent after the fall of the Majapahit empire, after Dewa Agung Ketut, ruler of Bali and Lombok divided his kingdom into several states ...
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Luwu: A state founded before 1600 in the Bugis region of the Southern Celebes ...
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Majene
Majene is the administrative capital of Majene Regency and it is located in the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi.
People
The population at the 2020 Census was 73,883 people, 52% of which are female and 48% of which are male. The town i ...
: A state in the Mandar region in the Southern Celebes ...
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Mamuju: A state in the Mandar region in the Southern Celebes ...
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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 ...
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Mangkunegaran: A 2,579.98 km² state founded on 17 March 1757 in the
Surakarta Sunanate
Surakarta Sunanate ( id, Kasunanan Surakarta; jv, ꦟꦒꦫꦶꦑꦱꦸꦤꦤ꧀ꦤꦤ꧀ꦯꦸꦫꦏꦂꦠꦲꦢꦶꦤꦶꦁꦫꦠ꧀, ''Kasunanan/Karaton Surakarta Hadiningrat''; nl, Soerakarta) was a Javanese monarchy centred in the city of ...
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Mappa
is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Suginami, Tokyo. Founded in 2011 by Madhouse co-founder and producer Masao Maruyama, it has produced anime works including ''Terror in Resonance'', ''Yuri!!! on Ice'', ''In This Corner of the Wo ...
: A state in the Toraja region of the Southern Celebes ...
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Marang: A state and town in the Makassar region in the Southern Celebes ...
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Napu: A state in the Middle Celebes.
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Napu: A state on the island of Sumba.
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Nita: A state in the Flores islands.
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Pagaruyung: The seat of Minangkabau kings of Western Sumatra ...
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Pakualaman: A 417.62 km² state founded on 22 June 1812 or 17 March 1813 in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta in Java.
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Palembang Darussalam: The Sultanate of Palembang Darussalam (Sumatra) was proclaimed in 1675 and dissolved by the colonial government of the Dutch Indies on October 7, 1823.
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Perlak: The earliest sultanate in Southeast Asia, believed to be accepted Islam as early as the 9th century.
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Pontianak: 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.
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Riau-Lingga: A Malay Sultanate existed between 1824-1918.
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Sambas: A state in West Borneo ...
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Serdang: A state in East Sumatra (Sumatera Timur), independent from Siak on 16/8/1862.
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Siak Sri Indrapura: A state in eastern Sumatra founded in 1722, split from Johor Empire, and became dominant in the region in the 18th century, and contracted in the following century to the Siak River basin.
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Solor Watan Lema
Solor is a volcanic island located off the eastern tip of Flores island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, in the Solor Archipelago. The island supports a small population that has been whaling for hundreds of years. They speak the langua ...
: A confederation of five Islamic kingdoms in East Nusa Tenggara.
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Sonbai Sonbai (also spelt ''Sonnebay'', ''Sonba'i'', or ''Sonbait'') was an Indonesian princely dynasty that reigned over various parts of West Timor from at least the 17th century until the 1950s. It was known as the most prestigious princedom of the Aton ...
: A dynasty in
West Timor which was divided in
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
The origins of the princedom are int ...
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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 was ori ...
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Surakarta
Surakarta ( jv, ꦯꦸꦫꦏꦂꦠ), known colloquially as Solo ( jv, ꦱꦭ; ), is a city in Central Java, Indonesia. The 44 km2 (16.2 sq mi) city adjoins Karanganyar Regency and Boyolali Regency to the north, Karanganyar Regency and Sukoh ...
: A 3,635 km² state in Java founded in 1755 after the state of Mataram split into two states.
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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.
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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 ?-?
* Paketana ...
: founded around 1547 in South Sulawesi ...
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Ternate: A 65 km² state in the Moluccas founded in the 13th century by people from Djaïlolo (today
Jailolo). Ternate became the premier state of the Moluccas in 1380 over Djailolo.
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Tidore: is a center of a spice-funded sultanate that arose in the 15th century.
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Ubud: A Raja family in the principality of Gianyar in southeast Bali.
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Wajoq: A state founded c.1450 by refugees by Luwu in the Bugi region of the Southwestern Celebes (Sulawesi Selatan). A kind of aristocratic republic governed by a council.
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Wehali
Wehali (''Wehale'', ''Waihali'', ''Veale'') 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 (Waiwi ...
: A kingdom in the southern part of Central Timor, regarded by the Timorese as the centre of their political culture.
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Yogyakarta: 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 gained independence and full recognition from the Netherlands.
See also
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List of regencies and cities of Indonesia for current governmental divisions
References
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