Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The South Sulawesi expedition (Dutch: Zuid-Celebes Expeditie) of 1905, also called the Fourth Bone War or Gowa War (Indonesian: Bundaka ri Gowa), was undertaken by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) to force the states of south Sulawesi (Celebes) to sign the Korte Verklaring (Short Statement or Declaration), the standard agreement whereby a native Indonesian ruler agreed to accept Dutch sovereignty. According to certain Dutch historians, the expedition was an \"obligation\", because the Dutch had responsibility for law and order. One Indonesian historian has argued that it was actually strategic: that south Sulawesi was the \"key\" to controlling the so-called Great East. There was also an economic motive: to extend the tax-collecting powers of the government of Sulawesi. The expedition received the imprimatur of the Governor of Sulawesi, Alexander Kroesen, in a letter dated 11 February 1904.The chief targets of the expedition were the most powerful south Sulawesi kingdoms of Bone, Luwu and Wajo. The expedition was preceded by negotiations, which roundly failed, and on 14 July 1905, in a letter to Governor Kroesen, Governor-General J. B. van Heutsz stated his intention to occupy all of south Sulawesi and compel the local rulers to sign the Short Declaration. This was the so-called \"Peace Policy\" (Pacificatie politiek)."@en }
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- South_Sulawesi_expedition abstract "The South Sulawesi expedition (Dutch: Zuid-Celebes Expeditie) of 1905, also called the Fourth Bone War or Gowa War (Indonesian: Bundaka ri Gowa), was undertaken by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) to force the states of south Sulawesi (Celebes) to sign the Korte Verklaring (Short Statement or Declaration), the standard agreement whereby a native Indonesian ruler agreed to accept Dutch sovereignty. According to certain Dutch historians, the expedition was an \"obligation\", because the Dutch had responsibility for law and order. One Indonesian historian has argued that it was actually strategic: that south Sulawesi was the \"key\" to controlling the so-called Great East. There was also an economic motive: to extend the tax-collecting powers of the government of Sulawesi. The expedition received the imprimatur of the Governor of Sulawesi, Alexander Kroesen, in a letter dated 11 February 1904.The chief targets of the expedition were the most powerful south Sulawesi kingdoms of Bone, Luwu and Wajo. The expedition was preceded by negotiations, which roundly failed, and on 14 July 1905, in a letter to Governor Kroesen, Governor-General J. B. van Heutsz stated his intention to occupy all of south Sulawesi and compel the local rulers to sign the Short Declaration. This was the so-called \"Peace Policy\" (Pacificatie politiek).".