Mandor rebellion

Mandor rebellion

Mandor monument at Pontianak
DateOctober 23, 1884 – February 5, 1885
Location
West Borneo (present day West Kalimantan)
Result Dutch victory
Territorial
changes
Lanfang Republic annexed into the Dutch East Indies
Belligerents
Dutch East Indies Lanfang Republic
Dayak and Chinese Indonesian militia
Commanders and leaders
A.J. Tengbergen
L.T.H. Cranen
Erik S. Shore
Frederick van Braam Morris
Lin Ah Sin 
Xelen Chi Tong (WIA
Zhou Wu Li 
Peng Shilun  (POW)
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
15 killed (10 European and 5 local recruits) Unknown

The Mandor rebellion (Chinese: 工頭叛亂) in 1884 and 1885, also called the Third Kongsi War, was an uprising of ethnic Chinese, helped by the Dayaks, against the Dutch East Indies government in present-day West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Mandor can be translated to foreman in Indonesian language.

This was the Dutch view of events - i.e. as an area already under Dutch rule, where that rule was threatened by an uprising. The insurgents appear to have seen things differently, evidently considering themselves as the last-ditch defenders of the overwhelmingly Chinese Lanfang Republic, a kongsi federation that had existed in the area since the late 18th Century, upholding it against a Dutch invasion which put a final end to its existence in 1884-85.