Panembahan Rama

Raden Kajoran
Died	14 September 1679 Mlambang (today part of Gunungkidul Regency, Indonesia)
Cause of death	Executed by the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
Other names	Panembahan Rama
Known for	Islamic religious figure; participation in Trunajaya rebellion
Title	Raden, Panembahan
Relatives	Trunajaya (son-in-law)

Raden Kajoran, also Panembahan Rama (died 14 September 1679) was a Javanese Muslim nobleman and a major leader of the Trunajaya rebellion against the Mataram Sultanate. He led the rebel forces which overran and sacked Plered, Mataram's capital in June 1677. In September 1679, his forces were defeated by the combined Dutch, Javanese, and Bugis forces under Sindu Reja and Jan Albert Sloot in a battle in Mlambang, near Pajang. Kajoran surrendered but was executed under Sloot's orders.

Kajoran () is a settlement south of present-day Klaten, Central Java.Raden is a title of Javanese nobility, and the title "Raden Kajoran" signified his status as the head of the ruling family there. According to the Javanese tradition, Sayyid Kalkum, Raden Kajoran's great-grandfather was the first of his family to settle in Kajoran. He was a younger brother of a holy man known as Sunan Tembayat, who was one of the first to introduce Islam to inland Central Java. Kalkum came into control of extensive territories in Kajoran in early 16th century. The family was intermarried with the royal families of Pajang and Mataram. By the time of Raden Kajoran, the family had become a powerful and influential family in Mataram, due to both their Islamic authority and royal marriage ties.

King Amangkurat I's reign saw the execution of many noblemen for suspicion of treachery, including the entire family of Pangeran Pekik (the former ruling dynasty of Surabaya) in 1659 and many members of the royal family at court during the 1660s. This brutality alarmed Kajoran, who began to symphatize with the king's rivals. When Trunajaya, a Madurese nobleman who were forced to live at court after his country's annexation, fled the court, Raden Kajoran took him in Kajoran as protégé and let him marry one of his daughters. He also encouraged a friendship between Trunajaya and the Crown Prince of Mataram (Pangeran Adipati Anom, future Amangkurat II) who also had a grudge against his father the king.

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