page_title: Zainal Abidin Alting
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Zainal Abidin Alting / Early years
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque with biographical data of Sultan Zainal Abidin Alting of Tidore, palace area, Tidore.
context_page_description: Sultan Zainal Abidin Alting Syah was the 26th Sultan of Tidore in Maluku Islands, reigning from 1947 to 1967. He was also the appointed Governor of Irian Barat in 1956-1962 before the actual inclusion of Irian Barat in Indonesia, serving official Indonesian claims against Dutch colonial rule.
context_section_description: Zainal Abidin Alting was born in Soasiu, the main town of Tidore Island, in 1912. His father Dano Husain was the great-grandson of Sultan Ahmad Saifuddin Alting (d. 1865). Malukan royalty were often named after Dutch cities and officials, in this case Governor General Willem Arnold Alting. His mother was called Salma and his brothers were Amir, Halni and Idris. At this time the Sultanate was vacant since the demise of the last incumbent in 1905, and the affairs of the zelfbesturende landschap (self-ruling territory) were handled by a regency council. After being educated in Batavia and Makassar, Zainal Abidin served as official in the Dutch colonial bureaucracy in Ternate, Manokwari and Sorong. When Japan invaded and occupied the Dutch East Indies in 1942, Zainal Abidin was made chief of the local government in Tidore for a while. Towards the end of the war he evoked  the displeasure of the Japanese and was exiled to Halmahera.
caption: Plaque in Tidore with biographical data about Sultan Zainal Abidin.
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