Diponegoro’s war effort had been further crippled…

Diponegoro’s war effort had been further crippled by the surrender of two of top aides to the Javanese Dutch puppet government in 182.

The Dutch, finally beginning to look like winners in the Great Java War after losing some fifteen thousand soldiers to guerilla warfare, invite Diponegoro to negotiate on March 28, 1830.

He accepts but is placed under arrest while meeting under the auspices of negotiation in 1830 and exiled by the Dutch to Makassar.