The areh was the smallest of the Atjehnese measures of capacity recorded by D. W. N. de Boer, equal to one-half of a gantang; one hundred and sixty areh made one goentja. Like the larger units it served to express, by way of the quantity of bibit needed, the size of a rice field.
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Het recht op den grond in Atjeh, by D. W. N. de Boer, dated Scheveningen, November 1931, pp. 59-80. Offprint DLP-141, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, ‘s-Gravenhage; Bibliotheek KITLV accession 0060 4460 60 081470 428.