Sibori Amsterdam

One aristocrat who felt threatened by Sibori Amsterdam's policy was his brother-in-law Kaicili Alam (d. 1684), the heir to the defunct Jailolo kingdom, who sought and found sanctuary at the Dutch Fort Oranje on Ternate, to the great irritation of the Sultan.

Sibori Amsterdam fell out with the VOC governor Robertus Padtbrugge, not least because of the latter's promotion of Christian missionaries in the staunchly Islamic kingdom.

[5] Sibori Amsterdam hastily brought his harem, Bobatos (chiefs) and artillery to Jailolo on Halmahera in open defiance of the Company.

The main Ternatan strongholds in Halmahera, Sahu and Gamkonara, fell to the VOC forces in 1681, and internal divisions among the rebels spelled the end of the movement.

[7] Sibori Amsterdam, abandoned by most of his followers, was finally captured in a bath house in August 1681 while he was massaged with fragrant oils by ladies of his harem.

The gains made in the Bungaya Treat of 1667 were mostly confirmed, but the gold-rich Gorontalo and Limboto, the Christian settlements at the Gulf of Tomini, and the Sangihe Islands were lost for the Sultan.

The political reshuffling meant that the Dutch no longer saw it necessary to pay annual "money of recognition" for the extirpation of clove trees in Ternatan territory.

Sibori Amsterdam's posthumous reputation was dubious: his younger contemporary François Valentijn described him as "inhumane, sanguinary, capricious" while the Ternatans regarded him as cruel, crafty and unlucky.

However, the destruction of Ternate's independence henceforth made Maluku into an economic backwater, and any dynamics vanished in the dynastic history of the Sultanate.