Qualla: The Kedopok War: When Probolinggo Rose Against Its Buyer https://qualla.com/kedopok-war en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:27 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/8/e/kedopok-war-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Kedopok War: When Probolinggo Rose Against Its Buyer https://qualla.com/kedopok-war The Kedopok War: When Probolinggo Rose Against Its Buyer: Introduction https://qualla.com/kedopok-war/ Photo credit Joan Gideon Loten, CC BY 4.0. A colonial governor needed cash. So in 1811, Herman Willem Daendels, the Franco-Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, sold an entire regency. Probolinggo, a district in Java's eastern salient with roughly 80,000 inhabitants, was purchased by Han Kik Ko, the Kapitan Cina of nearby Pasuruan, for 600,000 Spanish dollars payable in twenty installments. The existing Javanese regent was dismissed. Han took his place. To finance the debt, he taxed Probolinggo's farmers at fifty percent of their harvest and monopolized the rice trade through forced purchases. Two years later, the farmers answered with fire, blades, and a march on the town that killed Han, two British officers, and briefly drove the colonial administration into the sea.

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/8/e/kedopok-war-wp/qw8e-the-kedopok-war-when-probolinggo-rose-against-its--intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Kedopok War: When Probolinggo Rose Against Its Buyer: A Regency for Sale https://qualla.com/kedopok-war/ Photo credit Joan Gideon Loten, CC BY 4.0. The sale of Probolinggo was a symptom of a colonial system running on fumes. Daendels, governing Java on behalf of Napoleon's Dutch client state, was desperate for revenue. Probolinggo produced little income for the colonial treasury, making it expendable. Han Kik Ko, already a p...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/8/e/kedopok-war-wp/qw8e-the-kedopok-war-when-probolinggo-rose-against-its--a-regency-for-sale.mp3 0:06 2 full The Kedopok War: When Probolinggo Rose Against Its Buyer: The Demang's Grievance https://qualla.com/kedopok-war/ Photo credit Joan Gideon Loten, CC BY 4.0. Resistance coalesced around two figures. Kyai Mas, a religious preacher from Surabaya, drew followers among Probolinggo's oppressed population, and a prophecy -- likely spread by the deposed former regent -- began circulating through the villages. But the military leadership came...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/8/e/kedopok-war-wp/qw8e-the-kedopok-war-when-probolinggo-rose-against-its--the-demangs-grievance.mp3 0:06 3 full The Kedopok War: When Probolinggo Rose Against Its Buyer: The Coffee Plantation https://qualla.com/kedopok-war/ Photo credit Joan Gideon Loten, CC BY 4.0. On May 18, Han's party found the rebels encamped at a coffee plantation near the village of Kedopok, two or three miles from Han's residence. What happened next unraveled quickly. The British officers attempted to parley. The rebels attacked. Han's pikemen broke and fled. Han, Lt...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/8/e/kedopok-war-wp/qw8e-the-kedopok-war-when-probolinggo-rose-against-its--the-coffee-plantation.mp3 0:06 4 full The Kedopok War: When Probolinggo Rose Against Its Buyer: The Empire Strikes Back https://qualla.com/kedopok-war/ Photo credit Joan Gideon Loten, CC BY 4.0. The British response was overwhelming. At Surabaya, a column assembled within two days: 300 Scottish soldiers of the 78th Regiment, 500 sepoys of the Bengal Army, and a contingent of Javanese colonial troops. They reached Pasuruan by midnight on May 20, linked up with Cameron's e...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/8/e/kedopok-war-wp/qw8e-the-kedopok-war-when-probolinggo-rose-against-its--the-empire-strikes-back.mp3 0:06 5 full The Kedopok War: When Probolinggo Rose Against Its Buyer: Graves and Memory https://qualla.com/kedopok-war/ Photo credit Joan Gideon Loten, CC BY 4.0. Fraser and McPherson were buried in Probolinggo. Their graves survived Dutch colonial rule, Indonesian independence, and the upheavals of the twentieth century, though they were relocated during the New Order period to the grounds of a local government building that now serves as...

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