One late-19th-century conflict in this present-day country pitted Pong Tiku of the Pangala against the Bone people in the Coffee War, in which the colonial power eventually intervened, executing Tiku and subjecting his Torajan people to the rule of the rival Bugis.
One late-19th-century conflict in this present-day country pitted Pong Tiku of the Pangala against the Bone people in the Coffee War, in which the colonial power eventually intervened, executing Tiku and subjecting his Torajan people to the rule of the rival Bugis. In 1609, the orang kaya, an oligarchy in one part of this modern country, tricked colonial naval officers into appearing at a conference on Bandanaira, only to be murdered--an act that was reciprocated in spades in 1621 when a squadron under Jan Pieterszoon Coen massacred almost the entire population of the Banda Islands, leaving only enough survivors to cultivate its endemic clove trees on newly-introduced plantations. For 10 points, name this modern country, whose independence movement involved collaborating with a Japanese invasion to overthrow centuries of Dutch domination.
One late-19th-century conflict in this present-day country pitted Pong Tiku of the Pangala against the Bone people in the Coffee War, in which the colonial power eventually intervened, executing Tiku and subjecting his Torajan people to the rule of the rival Bugis.
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