REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, OPING -- Sultan of Ternate Mudaffar Sjah passed away in Jakarta's Pondok Indah Hospital on Thursday, an official said.

"I offer my condolences for the death of the sultan," Governor of Maluku Said Assagaff said here on Thursday, adding that his side expressed great loss over the death of the sultan of Ternate, located in Indonesia's eastern province of North Maluku.

According to information obtained from the hospital, the 80-year-old sultan passed away at 3.47 a.m. local time on Thursday. His body was returned to Ternate at 10.00 a.m. Western Indonesian Time.

Mudaffar Sjah was also a member of the Regional Representative Council (DPD).

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