Mudaffar Sjah

Mudaffar Sjah (13 April 1935 – 19 February 2015) was the 48th Sultan of Ternate from 1975 until his death.

He was born in Dufa Dufa on Ternate as the third son of the 47th Sultan of Ternate, Mohammad Djabir Sjah. He was seen as an unlikely candidate to succeed his father as Sultan, but in 1975 on the death of his father he was chosen as heir apparent. He was inaugurated as the new Sultan in 1986.

In 1977 Sjah became member of the People's Representative Council of Indonesia (DPR). He served as member of the political party Golkar. In 1987, one year after his inauguration as Sultan, he became provincial chairman of the party in North Maluku.

Apart from his position as Sultan he also served on the North Maluku Representatives Council. He suffered from lung cancer before his death in the Pondok Indah Hospital in South Jakarta.

In 2013 Sjah appeared in the second episode of Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero, where Bailey had an audience with the Sultan to request permission to search for birds-of-paradise in the former territories of the Sultanate.