Diponegoro Karya : Marshella Wijaya Pangeran Dipo Negoro , (Indonesian: pangeran, “prince”)also called Raden Mas Ontowirjo , (born c. 1785, Jogjakarta , Java [Indonesia]—died January 8, 1855, Makassar , Celebes), Javanese leader in the 19th-century conflict known to the West as the Java War and to Indonesians as Dipo Negoro’s War (1825–30). During those five years Dipo Negoro’s military accomplishments severely crippled the Dutch and earned for him a prominent place in the Indonesian nationalist pantheon of heroes. The sultanate of Jogjakarta was created February 13, 1755, by a Dutch treaty that dismembered the once-powerful Javanese kingdom of Mataram. Although Dipo Negoro was the eldest son of the third ruler of Jogjakarta, Sultan Amangku Buwono III, he was passed over for the succession in 1814 on the death of his father in favour of a son whose mother was of higher rank, but he was promised the throne should his half brothe...
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