Kalianda

Kalianda belongs to southern Lampung, where local chiefs contested Dutch attempts to extend authority beyond coastal trading relationships. The Radin rulers figure in the area's cultural memory, including the masked Tupping tradition associated with their guards and fighters. Their political history unfolded across a wider district than the settlement itself.

In 1817, a Dutch expedition negotiated with Radin Inten I, whose strength obliged the colonial authorities to offer an annual payment of twelve hundred guilders, with six hundred for each of two brothers. In return he was to refrain from extending his power into additional villages. The arrangement did not settle the struggle. Dutch operations resumed against Radin Imba, and an assault on his stronghold failed in 1833. In 1834 the stronghold fell; Imba fled to Lingga, was surrendered to the Dutch and exiled to Timor. These negotiations and campaigns mark the contested incorporation of Kalianda's wider Lampung hinterland into colonial rule.