costs for as high as 2.5 million guilders. An anti-Dutch official, Patih Nerangkusuma, was successful in persuading him to be rid of the debt. By providing...

Mataram Sultanate. When the situation was conducive, the anti-Dutch Patih Nerangkusuma persuaded him to betray the treaty. In 1685, Amangkurat II protected...

faction developed at the Mataram court, and a member of this faction, Nerangkusuma, became the patih (chief minister) from 1682 to 1686. Poor relations...