Pasuruan

The town of Pasuruan is located in the province Indonesia of Java Is, on the northern coast in edge of the strait of Madura, to 75 km in the south-east of Surabaya, the provincial capital.

The city is the chief town of the Kabupaten (department) of the same name.

Pasuruan is the framework of the novel De Stille Kracht (1900) of the Dutch writer Louis Couperus, which describes the slow forfeiture of a resident (governor) Dutch whose house is struck mysterious phenomena following a curse uttered in its opposition by an aristocrat to Madura of which it relieved the son regent (prefect).

History

In 1019 Airlangga, son-in-law of a king of the east of Java assassinated in 1016, is proclaimed sovereign principality of Pasuruan. In 1028, it launches out in a military offensive against the rebels, whom it ends up demolishing in 1035. Airlangga installs then its capital with Janggala, in the back-country of current Surabaya.

In the years 1530, Pasuruan is conquered by the Moslem kingdom of Demak in the center of Java. During XVIe century, the city will be the only significant Moslem power of the area. The remainder of Java East indeed constitutes the Principauté of Blambangan hindouist, with which Pasuruan is between often in conflict. It seems that towards 1600 Pasuruan conquers the capital of Blambangan.

Pasuruan is in any case the object of the competition between Surabaya and the kingdom of Mataram of the center of Java. In 1614 the Sultan Agung de Mataram attacks Surabaya and the close principalities, of which Pasuruan. The latter is demolished in 1616.

Pasuruan will be the refuge and the base of the former slave and rebel Bali be born Surapati. This one had fled of Batavia. After being itself returned, he had enlisted in the troops of the VOC (Compagnie Dutchwoman of the Eastern Indies in 1683, to take the maquis in 1684 again. A coalition formed by the VOC, Mataram and the prince Cakraningrat II of Madura will end up killing Surapati in 1706 and conquering Pasuruan in 1707.

During the XIXe century, whereas the colonial government applies its policy of " cultures forcées" ( cultuurstelsel ) in which the Javanese peasants must devote the quarter of their grounds or their time to commercial cultures, the area of Pasuruan is an important center of plantations of Canne to sugar.

Transport

Pasuruan is located on the coastal road and the railway which connect Surabaya to Banyuwangi.

References

Couperus, Louis, De Stille Kracht , translated into French under the title the force of darkness , Editions of the Sorb
Lombard, Denys, the Javanese crossroads
Ricklefs, Mr. C., has off History Modern Indonesia since C. 1300 , Stanford, 1994
Wolters, Oliver W., " Indonesia - The archipelago and its early historical records" in Encyclopedia Britannica

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