Jambi Sultanate

File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Portret van de Sultan van Djambi Sumatra TMnr 60002758.jpg

Photograph of the Sultan Taha Jambi Syaifuddin taken during a Royal Netherlands Geographical Society expedition from 1877 - 1879, by Daniël David Veth. He was killed by Dutch soldiers in 1904

The Sultanate of Jambi was a region ruled by a sultan in northern Sumatra. The Dutch conquered the sultanate and killed the sultan in 1904. The sultanate has since been restored in recent years. The original sultanate was centered in the modern-day province of Jambi in Indonesia.

In 1682 it was disputed as a vassal state between the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) and the Kingdom of Siam.

In the late 19th century the sultanate was slowly annexed by the Dutch, with the sultan degraded to a puppet ruler. By 1907 the last vestiges of indigenous rule had been abolished.

• COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De woning van de Sultan van Jambi TMnr 3219-39.jpg

  Engraving of the sultan's residence (1893)

• KapitulationJambi MartaNingrat-OLHelfrich 19040326.jpeg

  Surrender of the Crown Prince of the Sultanate of "MartaNingrat", Djambi (Jambi), in Sumatra before the Dutch residency official O.L. Helfrich, who takes the insignia in reception (March 26, 1904)