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Abdul Jalil of Asahan
Abdul Jalil is the traditional founder of the Asahan Sultanate on the east coast of Sumatra, said to have been a son of Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh by a local woman. According to tradition he established the sultanate around 1630 at the mouth of the Asahan river, and his descendants ruled it until the social revolution of 1946.
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