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LEADERSHIP OF INDONESIAN NATIONAL LEADERS [THOMAS MATULESSY(KAPITAN PATTIMURA)]

By: Prabowo Subianto [taken from the Book: Military Leadership Notes from Experience Chapter I]

In the history of our nation, we have often had leaders who never compromise with the invaders.
Leaders who loudly told the occupiers, ‘It is better to be destroyed than to be colonised’. It takes courage, conviction, and the spirit of a warrior to sacrifice one’s body and soul to confront these powerful aggressors.
Although Governor Suryo and Bung Torno may have coined the phrase ‘better to be destroyed than to be colonised’ to the Dutch in 1945, Pattimura made more or less the same statement 100 years before them.

Indonesian history records leaders who in their lives never compromise with the invaders. Leaders who loudly told the occupiers, ‘It is better to be destroyed than colonised.’ It takes courage, conviction, and the spirit of a warrior who would sacrifice his soul and body to confront such aggressors.

Before Governor Suryo and Bung Tomo proclaimed ‘We’d rather be destroyed than colonised’

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Pattimura

National hero of Indonesia

In this article, the surname is Matulessy, his Moluccanpatronymic surname.

Thomas Matulessy (8 June 1783 – 16 December 1817), also known as Kapitan Pattimura or simply Pattimura, was a famous Ambonese soldier who became a symbol of both the Maluku and Indonesian struggle for independence, praised by President Sukarno and declared a national hero by President Suharto. He has several namesakes in both the Netherlands and in the Indonesian archipelago.

Born on the island of Ceram, Pattimura joined the British Colonial Auxiliary Forces after they took the Maluku islands from the French. When the islands were returned to the Dutch in 1816, he was dismissed. The return of the Dutch in 1816 marked a change in the colonial system. After the bankruptcy of the Dutch East India Company, the Indonesian archipelago came under the control of the newly founded Kingdom of the Netherlands. This was accompanied by, among other things, the establishment of a colonial army: KNIL. Christian Moluccans in particular were wanted as ethni

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1) Pattimura was a national hero of Indonesia who led resistance against Dutch colonizers in Maluku from 1817 until his capture and execution. 2) As a leader, Pattimura successfully coordinated resistance forces and established alliances with other kingdoms to fight the Dutch. 3) Pattimura engaged in numerous battles against the Dutch forces but was eventually captured through deception. He was tried and sentenced to death by the Dutch authorities and hanged in Ambon in 1817.

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