Andi Aziz (19 September 1924 – 30 January 1984) was a

Royal Dutch East Indies Army The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (; KNIL, ; ) was the military force maintained by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in its colony of the Dutch East Indies, in areas that are now part of Indonesia. The KNIL's air arm was the Royal Netherl ...

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. He was born in Simpangbinangal, Barru,

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. He led the 5 April 1950

Makassar Uprising The Makassar Uprising, also known as Andi Aziz rebellion ( Indonesian: ''Pemberontakan Andi Aziz''), was a skirmish in Makassar, Sulawesi, between former Royal Dutch East Indies Army soldiers under Captain Andi Aziz and the Republic of th ...

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against the

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government. The purpose of the uprising was to revolt against the incorporation of the Indonesian federated "states" into the Indonesian Republic. The uprising was quashed, however, after two weeks when troops under Lt. Col.

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and Col.

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arrived at

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only to find light resistance. Aziz was ordered by the army to return to

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and was promptly arrested on arrival.

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1924 births 1984 deaths 20th-century Dutch East Indies people People from Barru Regency People of the Indonesian National Revolution {{Indonesia-mil-bio-stub