Sumat assembled his follower bands, mostly made up of Cambodian Chams and Malays secretly crossed into Panduranga, at first, to organize an uprising against the Hue court and reclaim Cham independence.[14] However his plan was compromised shortly after when a Cham Hindu official named Po Kabait Thuac, because of fearing retaliation, reported Sumat's potential uprising to the Vietnamese court. In response, Minh Mang immediately asked all alleged Cham supporters of katip Sumat to be arrested, but it turned out to be poor intelligence gathering of the Hue court, in which later all suspects were released and Thuac was executed by the Vietnamese court for "making false accusation."[15]