Syarif Hamid II of Pontianak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Sultan of Pontianak
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Place of Birth: Pontianak, Kalimantan, Indonesia
About Syarif Hamid II of Pontianak
- Sultan Hamid II, born Syarif Abdul Hamid Alkadrie (Arabic: ???? ??? ?????? ???????? Šarif ?Abd al-?amid al-Qadri; 12 July 1913 – 30 March 1978) was the eighth Sultan of Pontianak and the only President of the State of West Kalimantan from 1946 to its disestablishment in 1950.
- He was the eldest son of Sultan Syarif Muhammad Alkadrie.
- He was of mixed Malay-Arab ancestry and was raised by two British nationals— Salome Catherine Fox and Edith Maud Curteis. His wife Didie van Delden was a young Dutch woman who bore him two children – both reside in the Netherlands.
- During the Indonesian National Revolution, he was sympathetic to the returning Dutch and their attempts to implement a federal Republic of the United States of Indonesia, viewing the unitary Republic of Indonesia as an extension of Javanese domination.
- He was also a colonel in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army and designed the Indonesian national emblem—Garuda Pancasila.
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