A small monument in Soasio commemorates Sultan Nuku, the eighteenth-century Tidore sultan who led one of the most successful indigenous resistance campaigns against the Dutch in Indonesian history. The monument itself is modest — a bronze bust on a stone plinth, set in a small park near the main road — but it is a useful focus for thinking about the long story of Tidore-Dutch relations, which was anything but the one-sided submission often described in older European histories.
The information panel is in Indonesian only but the main outlines of Nuku's career are not hard to follow even without translation. Combine a visit with a stop at the Kadato Kie just up the hill, where some of his personal belongings are on display in the museum collection.