Tambusai

Tambusai was a small kingdom in the upper Rokan country of Sumatra, with its seat at Dalu-dalu. Its river valleys lay between the Minangkabau highlands and the lowlands leading to the Malacca Strait. In the early nineteenth century the religious leader Tuanku Tambusai became a prominent figure in the Padri movement. During the 1830s he fought Dutch forces around the upper Rokan, linking the struggle there to the wider Padri War.