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The '''Java War''' <!--(also called the '''China War'''<ref name="Laffan2011">{{cite book|author=Michael Laffan|title=The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euR7-YfMyS4C&pg=PA24|date=8 August 2011|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=1-4008-3999-8|page=24}}</ref> or '''Chinese War''')--> of 1741 to 1743 was an armed struggle by a joint [[Chinese Indonesians|Chinese]] and [[Javanese people|Javanese]] army against the [[Dutch East India Company]] and pro-Dutch Javanese that took place in central and eastern [[Java]]. Ending in victory for the Dutch, the war [[Third Javanese War of Succession|led to the fall]] of the [[Sultanate of Mataram]] and, indirectly, the founding of both the [[Sunanate of Surakarta]] and the [[Sultanate of Yogyakarta]].
After years of growing anti-Chinese sentiment, Dutch forces [[1740 Batavia massacre|massacred]] 10,000 [[Chinese Indonesians|ethnic Chinese]] in [[Jakarta|Batavia]] (now Jakarta) in October 1740. A group of survivors led by [[Khe Pandjang]] fled across the Sundra Strait, eventually heading east for Semarang on the island of Java. Despite being warned of the impending uprising, the head of the [[Dutch East India Company]]'s military, Bartholomeus Visscher, ignored his advisers and did not prepare reinforcements. As the situation developed, the court of {{nowrap|[[Pakubuwono II]]}}, Sunan of Mataram, decided to tentatively support the Chinese while seemingly helping the Dutch.
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