Belandja (Malay belanja, expenditure, maintenance money) was the subsistence advance made in Atjeh to a cultivator or immigrant settler, covering food, clothing and other daily necessities until the crop came in.
In the thiplah-tano contract
Under the thiplah-tano contract imposed on non-indigenous cultivators, the settler received as pangkaj a buffalo, the necessary bibit and a belandja of twenty guilders as an advance for provisions; half of the belandja had to be repaid in instalments.
In aboen meu’oeë
Under the aboen meu’oeë form of mawaih, the giver defrayed in addition to everything else the most necessary belandja of the mawaih-taker: clothing, food and smoking materials, the cultivator retaining only one-fifth of the harvest.
See Also
Source
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.