Biography Of Tuanku Imam Bonjol-National Hero Of Minangkabau

Tuanku Imam Bonjol-National Hero Of Minangkabau

Profile and biography of Tuanku Imam Bonjol. He is known as one of the national hero which came from minangkabau in Sumatra. Tuanku Imam Bonjol unknown was born in 1772 in Bonjol. She has a father named Bayanuddin and mother named Hamatun. Father Tuanku Imam Bonjol is famous as a pious cleric Rimbang River origin, Suliki, Fifty of the city. The original name of Tuanku Imam Bonjol was Muhammad Shahab, but when mature, many other titles given to Muhammad Shahab i.e. Tuanku Imam, Malin bases and Peto Syarif. There is one of the leaders of Kamang named Tuanku Nan Renceh, he was the leader of the Tiger Nan Salapan then appoint Muhammad Shahab as a priest or better known as the leader for the padri in Bonjol. So that from there he later better known as Tuanku Imam Bonjol.
 
Tuanku Imam Bonjol famous when their campaign against the Netherlands in the war of invasion, Padri. Padri war was the longest war that lasted from the year 1803 until 1838 involving fellow people Minang and Mandailing or Batak. Initially the war indeed can be said to be a civil war in Sumatra, the war happens because of the onset of a contradiction between the padri of the circle of scholars with the House there which is a community of pagaruyung. The Padri actually wanted the law in its territory is run in accordance with Islamic jurisprudence who hold fast to the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, given community there still have bad habits like gambling, penyabungan chicken, use madat, liquor and the law that is too loose, though there have been many communities who adopted Islam. The absence of an agreement between the Padri and the death of war there so Padri.

Padri war initially involves the padri led by Lord West Pasaman. Lord West Pasaman then attacked the House of custom led by Sultan Arifin Muningsyah. The first attack in Pagaruyung happened in 1815 and then further skirmishes broke out in the middle of the stone Cage near the Koto. The battle is then made the Sultan Muningsyah Arifin hard-pressed and forced to flee from the authority at Lubukjambi. 

Padri War Painting

Tuanku Imam Bonjol Padri War Lead
Due to the Custom House on sensitive when it so they then asked the help of the Netherlands, officially the Netherlands then help the Customs to fight against the Padri through an agreement was signed in the year 1821 in the field. The contents of that agreement states that the Netherlands will get the mastery of the region in the Interior of the Minangkabau. The agreement was attended by Sultan Bagagar Natural Charms. The presence of interference of the Netherlands help the Customs against the padri makes the situation more elaborate.

Although the Netherlands intervened in the Padri war, but the Netherlands also quite difficulty in resisting the Padri which when it was led by Tuanku Imam Bonjol. The difficulty of the Netherlands then invites Tuanku Imam Bonjol to terms, it is then poured in the agreement put up an in 1824. The agreement must be carried out by the Netherlands considering them when it ran out of funds to conduct war because the Netherlands also had to quell a war fought in other areas such as the Java war. But the agreement did not last long because the Netherlands then attacked nagari Clever Sikek.

Until the year 1833, parang Padri then entered a new chapter, the custom then turned United with the Padri against Netherlands. Remembering the war turned out to be just the miserable people of Minangkabau. The unity of a people and the Padri marked with Plaques Pato Peak on Broken Tabek.

Netherlands then do the siege and assault of the fortress the Padri. The siege and assault lasted for six months. In order for the siege and storming of the Netherlands, continuously sought the help of troops from Batavia. This then makes the position of Tuanku Imam Bonjol became wedged. However, Tuanku Imam Bonjol still do resistance and did not want to give up.

Padri War end and Catching Tuanku Imam Bonjol
On August 16, 1837 he was the fortress of Bonjol can be controlled by the Netherlands after long besieged. To catch its own Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Tuanku Imam Bonjol invites the Netherlands to negotiate on Palupuh in October 1837. In that place he was later captured by the Netherlands and then exiled in Cianjur, West Java. From Cianjur, he then brought to Ambon until then moved in the Minahasa, Lotak, near Manado. There Tuanku Imam Bonjol later died on November 8, 1864 and later buried on the grounds.

Faces of Tuanku Imam Bonjol on money five thousand

The Government of Indonesia later lifted the Tuanku Imam Bonjol for national hero thanks to his fight against the Netherlands colonizers. He was named as a national hero on November 6, 1973. The name Tuanku Imam Bonjol was also enshrined as many street names, in addition he also described in fractional money 5000 dollars. The name Tuanku Imam Bonjol is also widely used as the name of the public spaces such as the stadium and the name of the University.

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