Nyi Ageng Serang

Kustiyah Wulaningish Retno Edhi (1752–1838), better known as Nyi Ageng Serang, is a National Heroine of Indonesia. At the beginning of the Diponegoro War in 1825, the 73-year-old Nyi Ageng Serang commanded the force from her stretcher to help Diponegoro fight the Dutch. One of her best-known strategies was the use of lumbu (green taro leaves) for disguise. Her forces attached the lumbu to poles to look like a taro orchard. She stopped fighting after three years. Despite the fact that she had been fighting them, the Dutch gave her an annuity of 100 guilders per month as from 1833.