Sultan Haji Husain Syah (born in Ternate, North Maluku, 1 March 1964) is the titular Sultan of Tidore since 2014. He is the 37th ruler of the island in the traditional reckoning. Husain Alting was born in 1964 as the son of Abubakar Alting, a descendant of Sultan Ahmad Saifuddin Alting (died 1865). This branch of the Tidore royal dynasty is named after Governor-General Willem Arnold Alting (d. 1800). The Tidore Sultanate lapsed in 1967 with the demise of the last ruling Sultan, his distant relative Zainal Abidin Alting. However, the monarchy was revived as a cultural institution in 1999 when Djafar Syah was enthroned in distressed outer circumstances. Under Djafar's tenure, Husain Alting held the title Kapita Laut (a Portuguese-Malay expression literally meaning sea captain). As such he wa