Crownprince of Kutai will visit Holland in may 2009

About Picture Above : On this recent picture during a royal ritual event you can see from left to right the Crownprince and Crownprincess of Kutai, H.R.H. Aji Melinda Delyna Sari (one of their 3 daughters) and Drs. Muhammad Agri Winata;official representative of the royal family of Kutai for the foreign countries and maintainer of a website about Kutai (also royal) at www.kutaikartanegara.com .
He is also descendant of one of the sultans of Kutai and known, for always writing and talking about royal and general Kutai in an interesting way.

His Royal Highness Aji Pangeran Adipati Surya Adiningrat;the Crownprince of Kutai, with the Crownprincess H.R.H. Raden Puspa Kencana;accompagnied by a royal delegation will visit in may 2009;as representative of his father Sultan Aji Haji Mohammad Salehoeddin II, the Netherlands.
The meaning for this 2nd Kutai royal visit in 2 years to the Netherlands will be the promotion of the royal and general culture of Kutai (as a sultanate officially known as Kutai Kartanegara Ing Martadipura) the Kingdom of the (prosperous) Kutai and Kutai-Martadipura (a former statelett with whom it merged ca. 500 years ago).
Kutai is known as the oldest kingdom of Indonesia (already existing ca. 1600 years) and nowadays known as an area whose dynasty is able to show very much yearly of their culture and history.
The mostly yearly Eraufestival (remembrance of the settlement of the dynasty at his present residence;meant to uphold a good contact between the population and the royal family) is a good example of that.
The old and last used palace in the time, that the sultans still were ruling officially over Kutai is now a museum which displays royal and general local objects.
Nearby is the modern, but built in traditional style, palace, which is now the official residence of the sultan (although he lives mostly in a villa nearby).
The beautifull royal graves at 2 places (one near the old palace) and other items makes it very fascinating (and it makes you amazed, that nearly unknown, there is such an interesting place in Indonesia) to go there for a while.
Kutai is known for it's relaxed atmosphere.
Very beautifull nature nearby.
The royal city of Tenggarong along the Mahakam-river is a nice place. Kutai is the most prosperous area(oil;also it is called "the Brunei of Indonesia") of Indonesia and it is also a rare place,where prosperity has preserved the old culture (and atmopshere).
The in Holland as Aji Arifin born crownprince(his father studied at a Dutch university in the 1950-ies) is a governmentofficial (like his father was before) and;because of the age of his father (83 years) he is more and more representing his father and the local government at royal meetings,promotionactivities, ritual meetings,etc.
His father still maintains in a wonderfull and strong way his role as King of Kutai;at least as a focuspoint for the cultural identity of the Kutai area.
Because of the works of the previous Bupati of Kutai Kartanegara, Dr. Syaukani, Kutai could see many stimulating activities to preserve the rich and interesting royal culture of Kutai.
It is wonderfull to see, that even outside Java the young Indonesian generation is very eager to listen and learn from the older generations the old dances,the old histories, the old music,etc.All are proud also to have preserved their old culture.
That is very nice to experience in Indonesia: the motto of the coat of arms of Indonesia is Bhineka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity) and espacially in the last years the young schoolgoing people are teached the meaning and ability to perform their old culture.
The present crownprince and crownprincess of Kutai play a major role in such activities together with the Sultan and other members of the dynasty.
From 21 may until 1 june 2009 there will be the very big Indonesian fair in Den Haag/Holland: the Tong Tong Festival (very near the Central Railway station).
The royal delegation of Kutai with a cultural general delegation will attend this festival.
Very precious and interesting:nowadays rarely such high Indonesian royals visit the Netherlands, with whom it was connected in the past also in good ways.

Probably the royal delegation (they will have a special contactplace at the festival) will stay in Holland for ca. 1 1/2 week.
More precise details we hope to give you as soon as possible after messages received from the local government and royal dynasty.

D.P. Tick

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Historian and King

Here is depicted a rather special person:as historian he is known as Tuanku Luckman Sinar as King (of Serdang/East Sumatra since 2002) he is known as Sultan Bashar Shah II.
Also quite special is, that the livespan from his grandfather Sultan Basyaruddin Shah until the present time is exactly 200 years. His grandfather was born 1809 and ruled until his death in 1879. As a middleaged man he begot his succesor Sultan Sulaiman Ariful Shah, who ruled until 1946. This sultan begot the present Sultan as already a relative old man in the beginning of the 1930-ies. This Dutch speaking King is very good informed about the history of espacial the island of Sumatra; Only the southern part is not his area. His dynasty is also intermarried with several nearby dynasties, so that he is espcial informed about the East-Sumatra dynasties. He had written very much book and articles, gave very much readings, know very much about the function of the dynasties in the present time, advises many dynastychiefs about how to reappear in the social life of their area and is very respected in the national royal network.
Now he is working on a project to make his father Sultan Sulaiman a National Indonesian hero, because of his always thinking and acting for an independent Indonesia (he was much preserving his independent identity and the Dutch found him a king with heart for his people, but not very good cooperating with Holland).
He is a very examplary Indonesian royal, how he uses his descent to serve his country well.
On the picture he is depicted with his wife Sultana Suri Daratul Qamar; a princess from the nearby (former) principality of Kotapinang. Also a royal, who is very good informed about the local royal/princely history and shares the interest for the local history with her king-husband.

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Descendant of exiled Indonesian hero-rebel prince after 223 back to the country of his forefathers

Mister Faiq Doole; the descendant of an important exiled rebel prince from the West-Javanese sultanate of Banten will finally see the dynasty of his forefathers next month.
His forefather Tobagus Doella was exiled in 1786 by the Dutch East-Indian Government(V.O.C./Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie called in fact)because of his rebelactions against Holland.
He was then exiled to Ceylon/Sri Lanka, which was then in the possesion of Holland. Sri Lanka and South-Africa (Cape of Good Hope; also then in possesion of Holland) was then the major exile places for important Indonesian rebels against Dutch rule.
Mister Faiq Doole is now; after help of Raja Leopold Isu Nisnoni of Kupang/Timor; an important member of one of the Indonesian royal organisations; i s now in contact with some assistents of the present nominal-monarch of Banten: HRH Sultan-Muda Haji Drs. Tubagus Ismetullah Wase Al Abbas.
It will be for all a very important and emotional reunion after 223 years in coming may.We shall show pictures and reports about this visit later.

donald
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Raja Denpasar charged for failure and financial losses concerning the Indonesian royal tour to Europe 9-27 march 2009.

Many people were very enthousiastic about the Royal Culture promotion tour, etc.,whoch had to take place 9-27 march 2009. Later it was postphoned. The Raja of Badung-Denpasar,which led the whole project, is now mainly chraged for financal losses of a tourist organisation and also blamed for other things.
I think it is not fair to talk alone, what has gone wrong.Ida Tjokorda Ngurah Jambe Pemecutan;the Raja of Denpasar; really had a good intention to invite his fellow royalty to go to Europe in march, when he had to go to Germany for instance to receive a medal for good achievements in the touristworld in the difficult financial times in the world.
So the tourgoals were extended to the goal also to promote the royal culture of Indonesia in Europe, which would greatly enlarge the attractiveness of Indonesian tourism.Because of the coming Indonesian parliamentary elections (so all was concentrated on that) and maybe a bit uncarefull idea about the difficultness of the total project, it had to be postphoned in the end.
Of course we hope,that it will be possible later.
So our opinion is ,that it is good to talk about faults made in such projects, but also not to forget the very good and creative intentions (and very unique!) of the Raja of Badung-Denpasar and his organisation team.
We hope,that harmony disturbed in some networks by this matter will be restored soon, so that later the good ideas can be tried to make happen again.

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Donald P. Tick
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Kings of South Sulawesi Meet investigation Resilience Culture

Friday, 20 March 2009 03:35 WIB

MAKASSAR, KOMPAS.COM - Some 250 people heir to the kingdom and institutional tradition in South Sulawesi will sit together to discuss the preservation of local culture and resilience, and find again confidence, dignity and the dignity of the kingdom, Kedatuan customs and institutions in this region.

Meeting kings, progenitor, and his descendants held in the meeting "Great Congress" which was Forum Kingdom and Institutional Adat Sulawesi (FKKAS) in Makassar, 18 - 20 July 2009, said Chairman of the General FKKAS, Drs H. Andi Makmur A. Andi Makmur A. Sadda, MM di Makassar, Kamis. Sadda, MM in Makassar, on Thursday.

Court that Congress will be the Vice President, HM. Jusuf Kalla, he added, is done to preserve the spirit and values of the Kingdom, Kedatuan, Saoraja, Institutions and Indigenous communities that have a historical origin, cultural and traditional systems that are in a particular region.

During this time, he said, there has been no forum like this that bring together the heir to the kingdom, Kedatuan traditional culture and institutional areas to sit in the back of deliberation to find identity, dignity and the dignity of the kingdom in the province.

In fact, for the heir to the kingdom of the meeting is necessary so that the cultural values of the nation, especially in this province remain strong for the next generation entrusted to pelanjut dynasty, and the progenitor Saoraja so that they can further develop the traditional culture preservation of this area in the future.

"Basically, the heir to the kingdom will relay this to the generasinya to the front of the challenges that faces the complex is quite in line with changes to the global nature," he said.

He said, the heir to the kingdom will sit to discuss the resilience of culture and values of the kingdom, among others, H. Andi Oddang, former Governor of South Sulawesi kingdoms represent Tallo / customary council.

Andi Baso Hamid (kingdom Bone / council of Adat High), Andi Kumala Idjo (Gowa), Pamadengrukka (Suppa, Barru), Datu Andi Hasan Mahmud Hasan (Kedatuan Wajo) and Andi Makmur A. Sadda (Institutional Takalar customs district).

Iskandar Andi Baso Datu (traditional institutional Selayar), Andi Rustam Raga (Luwu Kingdom), Arifin Karaeng Mile (custom Jeneponto), Andi Muh. Rusli (adat Bulukumba), Dr Muhammad Diah Yusuf (mewakili Arung Bulukumba) dan Andi Mappaewang (Arajang Binuang Sulawesi Barat). Rusli (custom Bulukumba), Dr Muhammad Diah Yusuf (representing the major tourist Bulukumba) and Andi Mappaewang (Arajang Binuang South West).

Co-dynastychief Moang Josef Blasius Bapa Mekeng of KangaE (E-Flores)

This area lies north of the main Sikka area.
When the first raja of Sikka; Moang Ratu Dom Alesu Ximenes da Silva; came back from Malakka after a trip,where he tried to find the country of peace(but found instead the relgion of peace), he had in his possesion some dignity sticks. One of them he gave to a ruler in one of the 2 semi-vasal areas of Sikka: KangaE.
That dignitystick with a golden knob was given to Moang Goleng. Then he made a sort of Raja. From then on the rulers of KangaE considered themselves as raja, but Sikka always said,that they were part of the bigger Sikka principality.
Never really they totally amde them selves free from the contacts with Sikka.
In KangaE there was not a real centralised government.
In 1902 there was still much tension of Sikka with his rival larantuka to the est, so the Dutch found it better to create a more centralised principality of KangaE as a bufferstate between the 2 rivals.
Raja Moang NaE was made in 1902 raja and became really totally independent in 1907.
Lter they Dutch east Indish Government found it better tio cenrtalise some areas, so also this mountain area of KangaE became in 1923 a part of Sikka and Raja NaE officially abdicated as ruler 9-11-1925.After 1923 the rulers of KangaE were called Kapitan.
Raja NaE died in 1930.After his abdication none of his sons were considered as suitable to become ruler of KangaE. So a son of an uncle of Raja NaE;Moang Petrus Jacobus Bapa Mekeng became Kapitan.This in 1902 born prince was the highest educated of his area.
At that time he also married a noblewoman attached to the palace of the Moang Ratu/raja of Sikka.
In 1948 (the powervacuum area) the KangaE people wanted to restore their wished independence and also the Kapitan was not against it. After some fights the peace was restored again,but the Kapitan had to step down.
The a son of a brother of raja NaE became Kapitan; both of a bit reduced area: Ili Wetakara (ca. 90 % of old KangaE) :Kapitan MoE Bura.
After some years he was succeeded by the son of a brother of his father: Kapitan Alo Radja Lewa,who ruled for 3 years.Then succeeded by the brother of this Kapitan: Kapitan Petrus Radja Lewa, who ruled 2 years.The last Kapitan of KangaE/Ili Wetakara was another brother called Kapitan Johan Radja Lewa,who ruled for 3 years (still alive in 2000). Then the area became a more civil sub-district.
So you say,that the raja dynasty of KangaE now has 2 branches,whose chiefs are considered as co-dynastychiefs.
Moang Josef Blasius Bapa Mekeng is considered as one of them.He was born
3-2-1938 as 2nd son of his father. The oldest son died as a 1 month old baby. His wife is Donna Alfreda Ximenes da Silva; daughter of the last Raja of Sikka: Don Sentis Ximenes da Silva (regent before and nominal-raja 1954-1985).
This present co-dynastychief of KangaE has a long experience in the politics, transport business and also in the agriculture. From 1992-1997 he was member of the national parliament, then succeeded by his oldest son Moang Melkius Bapa Mekeng. His son was from 1999-2004 member of the consultatitive section of the Indonesian parliament and from 2004-2009 he will be the general member (DPRI) of the Indonesian parliament. His name is Melcias Marcus Mekeng (so also his father Mekeng in his name insead of Meheng) and as born 8-2-1963 married to Maria Lautentia Widyana and they have 3 children
Now the dynastychief runs his own financial company in Jakarta.

Donald
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Articles

Many Author in the world has made many articles about the present situation of Kerajaan-kerajaan In Indonesia.
One of them is Mr. Gerry van Klinken.
Please see this link

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1309406


Hopely all of you could reach and read it.


Regards,
Donald
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