Mudaffar Sjah

Mudaffar Sjah (13 April 1935 – 19 February 2015) was the 48th Sultan of Ternate from 1975 until his death.[1]

Mudaffar Sjah
Official portrait of Mudaffar Sjah as a member of the Regional Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia period 2014-2019
Sultan of Ternate
Reign1975 – 19 February 2015
Born13 April 1935
Dufa Dufa, Ternate, Dutch East Indies
Died19 February 2015(2015-02-19) (aged 79)
South Jakarta, Indonesia
FatherMohammad Djabir Sjah

He was born in Dufa Dufa on Ternate as the third son of the 47th Sultan of Ternate, Mohammad Djabir Sjah.[2] He was seen as an unlikely candidate to succeed his father as Sultan, but in 1975 on the death of his father he was chosen as heir apparent. He was inaugurated as the new Sultan in 1986.[2]

In 1977 Sjah became member of the People's Representative Council of Indonesia (DPR). He served as member of the political party Golkar. In 1987, one year after his inauguration as Sultan, he became provincial chairman of the party in North Maluku.[2]

Apart from his position as Sultan he also served on the North Maluku Representatives Council. He suffered from lung cancer before his death in the Pondok Indah Hospital in South Jakarta.[1]

In 2013 Sjah appeared in the second episode of Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero, where Bailey had an audience with the Sultan to request permission to search for birds-of-paradise in the former territories of the Sultanate.[3]

References
  1. "Sultan of Ternate Passes Away at Age 79". Jakarta Globe. 20 February 2015. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  2. Nils Bubandt (5 June 2014). Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia. Routledge. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-317-68252-3.
  3. "Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero". BBC. 2013-06-07. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
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