Syarif Hamid II of Pontianak

Sultan Hamid II
Syarif Abdul Hamid Alkadrie
Sultan Hamid II of West Borneo in the uniform of a General Major of the KNIL
7th Sultan of Pontianak
Reign1945–1950
PredecessorSultan Syarif Thaha
SuccessorSultan Syarif Abubakar
Born12 July 1913
Pontianak, Pontianak Sultanate, Dutch East Indies
Died30 March 1978 (aged 64)
Jakarta, Indonesia
SpouseDidie van Delden
Issue2
HouseAlkadrie dynasty
FatherSultan Syarif Muhammad
MotherSyecha Jamilah Syarwani
ReligionSunni Islam

Sultan Hamid II (born Syarif Abdul Hamid Alkadrie; 12 July 1913 – 30 March 1978) was the 7th Sultan of Pontianak and the only President of the State of West Kalimantan from 1946 to its disestablishment in 1950. He was the eldest son of Sultan Syarif Muhammad Alkadrie. He was of mixed Malay-Arab ancestry and was raised by two British nationals — Salome Catherine Fox and Edith Maud Curteis.

His wife Didie van Delden was a young Dutch woman who bore him two children – both reside in the Netherlands. During the Indonesian National Revolution, he was sympathetic to the returning Dutch and their attempts to implement a federal Republic of the United States of Indonesia, viewing the unitary Republic of Indonesia as an extension of Javanese domination. He was also a colonel in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army and designed the Indonesian national emblemGaruda Pancasila.