Malahayati The first female admiral in the world

He was one of the women fighters who came from the Aceh Sultanate.

In various records, Malahayati is the world's first female marine admiral.
He was the warlord of the Aceh Sultanate who was tested for his courage against the navy fleet of the Dutch and Portuguese of the 16th century AD

The courage and power of Malahayati can not be separated from his relatives who are Acehnese aristocrats.

His grandfather was named Admiral Muhammad Said Syah, son of Sultan Salahuddin Syah who ruled the Sultanate of Aceh in 1530-1539.

While his father, Mahmud Syah also had become a naval admiral.

No wonder, when Malahayati inherited the spirit of fighting and love of the navy.

In fact, Malahayati also had an education at the Mahad Baitul Maqdis Military Academy.

There he also established relationships with senior officers who then became her husband.
But the fate of fate came because of Malahayati's husband, died while fighting with Portuguese troops.

From there, he was determined to help the famous troop with an Inong Balee name.

The soldier consists of widows whose husbands are killed in battle.

Cornelis de Houtman, the first Dutch explorer to arrive in Indonesia, became one of those who knew very well what it felt like to be beaten by Malahayati's forces.

When attempting to destabilize Aceh in 1599, Cornelis de Houtman's army was ravaged.

Not only the Dutch, even the Portuguese troops feel the power of the army Admiral Malahayati.

However, the struggle of Admiral Malahayati had to stop sometime around 1606.

He died while fighting against Portuguese troops in the waters of the Strait of Malacca. His body is buried on the slopes of Lamkuta Hill, Banda Aceh