Perkasa Alam Syarif Lamtui or Badr ul-Alam Syarif Lamtui ul-Mutaawi Jamal ul-Lail (died after 1712) was the nineteenth

sultan of Aceh The Sultanate of Aceh, officially the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam ( ace, Keurajeuën Acèh Darussalam; Jawoë: كاورجاون اچيه دارالسلام), was a sultanate centered in the modern-day Indonesian province of Aceh. It was a major ...

in northern

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and ruled briefly in 1702-1703. Perkasa Alam was the son of an Arab of sayyid ancestry, Ibrahim Jamal ul-Lail. A somewhat doubtful source mentions him as the nephew of a previous ruler, Sultana Kamalat Syah (r. 1688-1699). When his older brother

Badr ul-Alam Syarif Hasyim Jamaluddin Badr ul-Alam Syarif Hasyim Jamaluddin (died 1702 or after 1717) was the eighteenth Sulṭān of Acèh Darussalam in northern Sumatra. His brief reign (1699–1702) marked a transition to more unsettled conditions in Aceh, as persons not belong ...

abdicated in 1702 a short interregnum followed. It was only after Badr ul-Alam's death in the same year that the parties agreed to enthrone Perkasa Alam. He was not long on the throne, however. In order to improve the financial position of the court he introduced new taxes and reimposed duties on British traders. The Britons present in Aceh asked for exemption which was refused. British ships then blockaded the port and fired on villages situated at the estuary of the

Aceh River The Aceh river on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia flows from mountains that include the 2780-metre high Mount Peuët Sagoë for some two hundred kilometres northeastward to reach the junction of the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Sea at Banda Ac ...

. Meanwhile the ''orang kayas'' (grandees) and ''uleëbalangs'' (chiefs) were dissatisfied with the new levies imposed on the land. Taking advantage of the beleaguered situation of Perkasa Alam they launched a revolt. A son of his predecessor, Alauddin, secured his deposition in June 1703. Two months later he ascended the throne under the title

Jamal ul-Alam Badr ul-Munir Jamal ul-Alam Badr ul-Munir (died after 1736) was the twentieth Sulṭān of Acèh Darussalam in northern Sumatra and the third ruler of the Arab Jamal ul-Lail Dynasty. He ruled from 1703 to 1726 when he was deposed. Taking the throne The futu ...

. Perkasa Alam later stayed in the village Pasanga on the east coast of Aceh. In 1712 he was attacked and expelled by 7,000 troops dispatched by Jamal ul-Alam Badr ul-Munir. He was eventually captured in Tranigain and seems to have been kept in captivity by the new ruler.Coolhaas (1976), p. 857, 902.

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Literature

* Coolhaas, W.P., ed. (1976) ''Generale missiven van Gouverneurs-Generaal en Raden aan Heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, Deel VI: 1698-1713''. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff. * Crecelius, D. and Beardow, E.A. (1979) 'A Reputed Acehnese Sarakata of the Jamal al-La'il Dynasty', ''Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' 52, pp. 51-66. * Djajadiningrat, Raden Hoesein (1911) 'Critische overzicht van de in Maleische werken vervatte gegevens over de geschiedenis van het soeltanaat van Atjeh', ''Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde'' 65, pp. 135-265. * Lee Kam Hing (1995) ''The Sultanate of Aceh: Relations with the British, 1760-1824''. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. {{s-end Sultans of Aceh 1710s deaths 18th-century Indonesian people 17th-century Indonesian people