The Chinese (Chineezen) in Atjeh were, together with the Kingaleezen, the non-indigenous cultivators against whom, in D. W. N. de Boer’s account, the Atjehnese beschikkingsrecht was applied with greater strictness than against the Atjehnese themselves.
Terms of admission to the soil
Such a settler had not only to pay the haq radja taléë but also to conclude the thiplah-tano contract. Against a pangkaj consisting of a buffalo, the necessary bibit and a belandja of twenty guilders, he bound himself to surrender to the radja either half the cleared ground or, each year, half of the half-crop; half of the belandja was repayable in instalments. For rice fields the contract was granted only on an undertaking to work a minimum of five naleh of seed, about 8,000 square metres.
In return, half the cleared sawah became his “property,” saleable on his departure subject to the radja’s right of preference.
Subsequent regulation
Alienation to persons not belonging to the indigenous population was later taken in hand by the Gouvernement under the Zelfbestuursregelen, article 15 sub I in conjunction with article 29 sub 3.
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.