Padri War

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The Padri War was a 19th-century conflict in West Sumatra between Islamic reformists (Padri) and traditional Minangkabau chiefs, later involving Dutch colonial forces and significantly shaping colonial control in the region.

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Label Occurrences
Padri War canonical 3
Perang Padri 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century conflict
war
alsoKnownAs Padri War
surface form: Perang Padri
chronologyNote initially an internal Minangkabau conflict before Dutch intervention
conflictType civil war
colonial war
endTime 1837
hasCause Dutch colonial expansion in Sumatra
Islamic reform movement in Minangkabau
conflict between Islamic law and Minangkabau adat
hasCommander Dutch colonial officers
Tuanku Imam Bonjol
Tuanku Nan Renceh
hasConsequence increased Dutch influence over Minangkabau highlands
integration of West Sumatra into Dutch colonial administration
reconfiguration of Minangkabau political authority
hasIdeology puritan Islamic reform
hasMainBelligerent Dutch colonial forces
Minangkabau adat leaders
Minangkabau traditional chiefs
Padri
hasOpposedIdeology Minangkabau adat tradition
hasSignificantEvent Dutch intervention in support of Minangkabau chiefs
fall of Bonjol in 1837
siege of Bonjol
hasTheater Bonjol region
Minangkabau Highlands
surface form: Minangkabau highlands
historicalPeriod Dutch East Indies era
historicalSignificance key step in Dutch control over inland Sumatra
major conflict between Islamic reform and local customary law in Indonesia
involvesColonialPower Netherlands
involvesEthnicGroup Minangkabau
surface form: Minangkabau people
languageOfName Indonesian
locatedIn Dutch East Indies
Sumatra
West Sumatra
present-day Indonesia
partOf Dutch conquest of the Indonesian archipelago
religiousAspect Islamic reformism
Wahhabi-inspired movement
result Dutch consolidation of control in West Sumatra
defeat of Padri forces
strengthening of Dutch colonial rule in the interior of Sumatra
startTime circa 1803

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KNIL conflict Padri War
Padri War alsoKnownAs Padri War
this entity surface form: Perang Padri
Fort de Kock associatedWith Padri War