III.4 Wars, Resistance and Opposition
What form did anti-colonial resistance take? In many sources resistance, like Surapati’s uprising in 1686 in south-central Java, appears to be a local and sometimes even regional phenomenon. Wider resistance came from prominent political Muslim leaders such as Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa of Banten (reigned 1651-1683) who promoted the Ummah Islam, a supra-regional and highly political community of believers. Some of their letters have been preserved and reveal their intentions and motivations.
Complaints lodged by the inhabitants of Hunut on the island of Ambon, 14 July 1695
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