Djajadiningrat family

[1][2] Noted for their western outlook and loyalty to the Dutch authorities during the colonial period, the family nonetheless fought on both sides of the Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949).

According to Nina Consuelo Epton, the family's oral history recounts that in the middle of the seventeenth century, their ancestor Astapati ('deadhand'), the one-handed renegade son of a Baduy chieftain, sought shelter at the court of the Sultan of Banten.

[5] After an alleged involvement in a peasant revolt, he latter was succeeded by his younger brother, the progressive Raden Toemenggong Bagoes Djajawinata.

[6][7][8] Hurgronje, who believed in coopting the Indonesian elite by giving their children a Dutch education, ensured the admission to the prestigious Koning Willem III School [id] of the brothers Achmad (1877–1943) and Hoesein Djajadiningrat (1886–1960), sons of Raden Bagoes Djajawinata.

[5][8][9] Achmad, the elder son, went on to succeed his father as Regent of Serang (1901–1924), then of Batavia (1924–1929), and served as a member of both the Volksraad (Indonesia's colonial quasi-parliament) and the Raad van Indië (Council of the Indies).