Sisingamangaraja XII

Sisingamangaraja XII
Preceded bySisingamangaraja XI
Personal life
BornPatuan Bosar Sinambela
(1845-02-18)18 February 1845
Bakkara, Tapanuli (present-day Baktiraja, North Sumatra)
Died17 June 1907(1907-06-17) (aged 62)
Dairi
Religious life
ReligionParmalim

Patuan Bosar Sinambela ginoar Ompu Pulo Batu, better known as Sisingamangaraja XII (18 February 1845 – 17 June 1907), was the last priest-king of the Dynasty of Sisingamangaraja of Batak peoples in northern Sumatra. In the course of fighting a lengthy guerrilla war against the Dutch colonisation of Sumatra from 1878 onwards, he was killed in a skirmish with Dutch troops in 1907. He was declared a National Hero of Indonesia in 1961 for his resistance to Dutch colonialism.

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