bevolkingsreserve (English: “Population reserve (lands)”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Lands still available in sufficient measure in Atjeh on which Javanese contract laborers could be settled as colonists starting in 1930.
Translation
Population reserve (lands)
Description
Lands still available in sufficient measure in Atjeh on which Javanese contract laborers could be settled as colonists starting in 1930.
Significance
The term bevolkingsreserve is recorded by Jongejan as part of the cultural, administrative, or institutional vocabulary of Aceh.
See Also
Source
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 296.