Tanjungpura

Tanjungpura was a Malay kingdom on the south-western coast of Borneo facing the Java Sea. It was known as Bakulapura in the Singhasari period.

The Nagarakretagama of 1365 listed Tanjungpura among lands in Majapahit’s orbit. Under Panembahan Karang Tanjung, who reigned from 1487 to 1504, the court moved to Sukadana and the kingdom took that name. Panembahan Giri Kesuma embraced Islam in 1550; the Dutch reached Sukadana in 1604, and the ruling line was reorganized as the Matan Sultanate in 1665.