Case file · Folklore / legend
Diponegoro meets the Queen of the Southern Sea
In his autobiographical chronicle, the Javanese prince Diponegoro described a spiritual pilgrimage to the south coast around 1805 in which the sea goddess Ratu Kidul came to him.
1805 CE · -8.02, 110.32 · status: account
The account
Diponegoro later led the Java War (1825–30) against the Dutch, presenting himself as a divinely guided ruler. Parangkusumo beach remains a place of offerings to the goddess.