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Cut Nyak Dhien

1848–1908 · 19th century

Cut Nyak Dhien was an Acehnese guerrilla leader in the Aceh War against the Dutch. After her first husband was killed in 1878 she married the commander Teuku Umar and fought beside him, and after his death in 1899 she led resistance in the forests for six more years. Captured in 1905 and exiled to Sumedang in Java, where she died, she was declared a National Hero of Indonesia in 1964.

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Cut Nyak Dhien. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/cut-nyak-dhien
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