Matahari Alliance

**Highest Ranked**: Kimberly (4/20)

The Matahari Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Indonesia.

Despite being created on the original Matahari tribe, the alliance itself was largely controlled by two original Bulan castaways during the later two thirds of the game. Though they controlled the merge, the alliance soon crumbled because they were too large to completely trust each other.

## History

### Foundations

The orange Matahari tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Indonesia* containing ten formerly pre-merge Survivor veterans. The only extended pre-existing relationship on the tribe was between the Penang Women of Kimberly and Mary from *Survivor: Malaysia*. The pair set aside their personal history and found themselves in an alliance of seven along with Chet, Clay, Luke, Shilpa and Xavier. After the tribe lost the first immunity challenge, this new alliance was most threatened by Brittany and Taylor because of their connections to players on the rival Bulan tribe. They decided to split the votes between the pair, which led to Brittany's elimination.

The Matahari Alliance agreed that their next course of action would be to go after Taylor for still having connections to Bulan. However, Xavier didn't like that Kimberly and Mary had a pre-existing relationship within their own alliance because it meant they already had stronger loyalties. When the tribe lost again, the alliance told the girls they would be voting for Shilpa when in fact the Matahari Alliance and Kate-Lyn blindsided Mary. This move meant that Kate-Lyn had taken Mary's place within the alliance. When Matahari lost their third challenge on Day 11, Kate-Lyn wanted Taylor gone because they had worked together at the beginning of the game and she didn't want him exposing any plans they had made in the past. Luckily, the alliance still wanted him out because of his connections on Bulan and Taylor was voted out.

### Two New Leaders

At the tribe switch on Day 12, Kimberly, Shilpa and Xavier from the Matahari Alliance remained on Matahari with Chet. There appeared to be a 4-4 split along original tribal lines when they were joined by Alexander, Benjamin, Laurie and Tatianna from Bulan. The Matahari Alliance was worried they would be in the minority if Chet worked with Bulan, but Tatianna told the alliance she wanted to work with them. When Matahari lost their only immunity challenge together on Day 18, the Matahari Alliance along with Tatianna had the numbers to eliminate Benjamin.

Meanwhile, Clay, Kate-Lyn and Luke from the Matahari Alliance were placed in the minority when they were switched to Bulan against five original Bulan castaways. After Bulan lost their first immunity challenge together, the trio were approached by Evelyn because she heard rumours that her own Bulan Alliance was coming after her. After playing her idol at tribal council, Evelyn told the Matahari Alliance to split the votes between Luke and Tom in order to force a tie. The Matahari Alliance had the numbers at the revote to save their ally Luke and eliminate Tom. The alliance continued to have the numbers when Bulan lost their second challenge in a row, where they eliminated Frankie. When the tribes merged at the Final Thirteen, Evelyn's post switch Matahari Alliance from Bulan was given the majority when they were joined by her allies Anastasia and Tatianna. At the first merged tribal council, the voted out Chet for being a loose cannon.

### Second Iteration

Tatianna was concerned with her involvement in the Matahari Alliance because she appeared to be at the bottom. Rather than wait for her torch to be snuffed, Tatianna made a move and decided to combine the minority alliances which included Alexander, Clarence, Kimberly, Laurie, Shilpa and Xavier. Tatianna's new alliance had the majority to vote out Luke because Tatianna was threatened by his relationship with her close friends Anastasia and Evelyn. Luke's elimination caused an argument between Evelyn and Tatianna back at camp, which prompted Clay and Kate-Lyn to flip from the Bulan Alliance. The Matahari Alliance remained with a numbers advantage and voted out Evelyn, who also played a fake idol which Xavier planted at the Bersama camp.

By the Final Ten, the Matahari Alliance of nine started to split because there were too many people with different agendas. Though Clarence, Clay and Kate-Lyn decided to switch to the rival Bulan Alliance, the Matahari Alliance still had the majority and they decided to eliminate Kate-Lyn. The cracks continued to open at the seams of the alliance, where Kimberly and Shilpa wanted each other out. The Matahari Alliance voted out Shilpa because Tatianna considered Kimberly a more loyal and somewhat naive ally. This much smaller majority alliance had found themselves in a comfortable position and used their numbers advantage to get rid of Clarence, making him the sixth member of the jury. Anastasia and Clay told Tatianna that if she didn't turn on her alliance, the under the radar players would cut her in order to get to the Final Three. Tatianna thought that Laurie fit this mould the best and convinced the rest of the Matahari Alliance to unanimously eliminate her.

Despite losing one of their own, the alliance still had the numbers to get rid of either Anastasia or Clay next. At the next tribal council, the alliance voted for Anastasia but a tie occurred when Alexander flipped to vote for Tatianna. No one switched their vote at the revote, which led to a deadlocked vote. This led to a rock draw between Alexander, Kimberly and Xavier, where Alexander drew the odd rock and was eliminated. Kimberly, Tatianna and Xavier appeared to have the majority over Anastasia and Clay once again, but the girls wanted to turn on Xavier. However, Xavier played his idol and flipped to work with the minority to blindside Tatianna. Kimberly, the only loyal Matahari Alliance member left, was voted out and made the final member of the jury.