Concentration system (1884–1896)

The Concentration system (concentratiestelsel) of 1884–1896 — in Kreemer’s history, the Dutch policy of “inkrimping van het rechtstreeks onder ons bestuur gebracht gebied, gepaard met een strenge ‘blokkade’ van de kust” — “contraction of the area brought under our direct administration, accompanied by a strict ‘blockade’ of the coast” — was, in Kreemer’s judgement, the greatest service anyone ever did the Atjèhnese war-party: “zeker niemand de oorlogspartij ooit een grooter dienst bewees, dan de uitvinder van deze concentratie” — “certainly no one ever did the war-party a greater service than the inventor of this concentration.”

The decision

The concentration policy was decided on 19 August 1884, in response to the steady deterioration of the Dutch position after the premature introduction of civil government in 1881. The war costs had risen, by the end of 1884, to ƒ150 million; the deficit in the Indies treasury had reached ƒ86 million. “De Regeering zon op een middel om uit dezen onhoudbaren toestand te geraken, en zij meende dit middel gevonden te hebben in een ‘stelsel van concentratie’” — “The Government sought a means to escape from this untenable situation, and believed it had found this means in a ‘system of concentration.’” Colonel H. Demmeni was appointed civiel en militair gouverneur on the same date, combining civil and military authority in one hand.

The three principles

The concentration, completed by early March 1885, was characterised by three principles:

a. The abandonment of part of the occupied territory — where Dutch authority “feitelijk toch niet bestond” — “in fact did not exist” — and the occupation of a smaller area that could actually be held. In place of the existing posts — partly those of Pel’s conquest-tours, partly those of the Van der Heijden expeditions of 1878–1879 — a well-connected post-line (postenrij) was laid around the main strongholds of Koeta Radja and Oelèë Lheuë. The concentrated line — 16 posts, surrounded by a 1,000-metre-wide free zone stripped of kampongs, trees, and brush — ran roughly from Koeta pöamat (Koeta Pohama), over Peukan Kroeëng Tjoet, Lam Njöng, Roempét, Lam Peureumè, Lam-Barö, Keutapang Doea, and thence north-westward to the sea. Communication between the posts and Koeta Radja was maintained by a ceintuurstoomtrambaan (belt steam-tramway) with two radial lines to Koeta Radja, where it connected to the line to Oelèë Lheuë. The posts were interconnected by a telephone network with a central bureau at Koeta Radja.

b. Restriction, as far as possible, of Dutch interference in the internal affairs of the Onderhoorigheden. The posts at Samalanga and Lhö Seumawè were abolished in 1884.

c. A strict blockade (proclaimed 20 September 1884) of the coast, to prevent the enemy bands from being supplied by sea with war-materials and provisions.

The failure

Kreemer’s verdict on the concentration is severe. Militarily, the reduction of posts allowed a reduction of three infantry battalions — but this advantage was negated by the disastrous health conditions within the small occupied area (just over 1 square G.M. — geographical mile — where 5,000 men were heaped and locked up). “Vooral de beri-beri maakte tal van slachtoffers (in 1885 en 1886 bedroeg het aantal beri-beri-zieken bijv. 36 en 34°/0 der legersterkte!)” — “Above all the beri-beri claimed many victims (in 1885 and 1886 the number of beri-beri-sick amounted, for example, to 36 and 34% of the army-strength!).” The great defensive capacity of the position was offset by the exclusion of offensive action outside it: “het offensief optreden buiten de stelling door de concentratie was buitengesloten, waardoor we niet konden beletten, dat kleine benden telkens onze stelling en onze soldaten aanvielen” — “offensive action outside the position was excluded by the concentration, so that we could not prevent small bands from repeatedly attacking our position and our soldiers.” Overfalls within the line became the order of the day, requiring severe penalties on the carrying of weapons by the Atjèhnese population, and a pass-system was introduced on 1 March 1885.

Politically, the concentration was, in Kreemer’s account, a catastrophe. “In de oogen der oorlogspartij was zij niet anders dan een terugtocht, waartoe zij ons door hare aanvallen had gedwongen en waardoor haar moreel aanmerkelijk werd verhoogd. Met de concentratie begon het tijdperk der oelama’s, die toen de leiders van den oorlog werden” — “In the eyes of the war-party it was nothing other than a retreat, to which she had forced us by her attacks, and by which her morale was considerably raised. With the concentration began the period of the ulama, who then became the leaders of the war.” Teungkoe Tirö — “tot aan zijn dood toe (1890) de leider bij uitnemendheid” — “until his death (1890) the leader par excellence” — formed a standing army, zealously collected the ha’ sabi — the portion of the zakat destined for the holy war — and surrounded the entire Dutch line with a ring of small concealed bentengs, “zoodat het er veel van had, of hij het was, die ons met kracht van wapenen ingesloten hield” — “so that it looked much as if it was he who kept us enclosed by force of arms.”

The abandonment of the blockade

The political end — the pacification of the land — was no more achieved by the concentration than by Pel’s 1877 system. “Niet alleen had men al de veroveringen na 1877 prijs gegeven, maar feitelijk was men in hoofdzaak tot den toestand van dat jaar teruggekeerd” — “Not only had all the conquests after 1877 been given up, but in fact one had essentially returned to the condition of that year.” The blockade — the strong part of the programme — was already abandoned in May 1885, only the weak-passive part (the concentration itself) being maintained: “Behalve ten opzichte van opium en krijgsbehoeften was de handel nu dus geheel vrij. Natuurlijk kwam dit de verzetspartij weer ten goede, daar het voorname middel, dat haar nog ontbrak — overvloed van geldmiddelen — haar nu overvloedig toevloeide” — “Except regarding opium and war-materials, trade was now wholly free. Naturally this again benefited the resistance-party, since the principal means that it still lacked — abundance of financial means — now flowed to it abundantly.”

The war costs

The concentration did not even fulfil the expectation of saving the treasury. The war costs, which during this period still amounted to some ƒ7 million per year, had risen by early 1893 to approximately ƒ210 million.

Significance

The concentration system is, in Kreemer’s narrative, the low point of Dutch fortunes in the Atjèh war — the moment at which the Dutch abandoned the conquests of 1878–1879, shut themselves into a besieged perimeter, and handed the initiative to the ulama-led resistance. The concentration produced, as its direct political consequence, the Oema-period of Teungkoe Tirö and Teukoe Oema, and it was only the abandonment of the concentration under Van Heutsz and the adoption of Snouck Hurgronje’s advice — “dat de onderwerping niet uitsluitend afgewacht, nog minder afgebedeld, maar dat zij afgedwongen moest worden” — “that submission could not merely be awaited, still less begged for, but must be forced” — that would reverse the decline.

Account from Na 1795 (1924) — the schoolroom memory

The concentration system in Atjeh (stelsel van concentratie) was the Dutch colonial military strategy adopted in the aftermath of the 1879 conquest of Groot-Atjeh by General Van der Heyden and the subsequent failure of the civil administration that replaced the military government — a defensive strategy by which, in the canonical formulation of the *Na 1795* school-history textbook of F. Roorda, “de veroverde streken werden prijsgegeven en men beperkte zich tot de verdediging van een versterkte stelling om Kota-Radja” (“the conquered regions were given up, and one restricted oneself to the defence of a fortified position around Kota-Radja”). The system defined the Dutch war effort in Atjeh from the early 1880s to the late 1890s — a period in which, in the schoolroom memory, “Langen tijd scheen het, dat de Atjehneezen zouden winnen” (“for a long time it seemed that the Atjehnese would win”).

Adoption in the schoolroom narrative

The *Na 1795* school-history textbook records the adoption of the concentration system in the paragraph that follows the 1879 conquest:

“1879. Generaal Van der Heyden bracht Groot Atjeh onder ons gezag: de opstand scheen bedwongen. Evenwel beging de regeering nu de fout het militaire door een burgerlijk bestuur te vervangen. Het verzet begon opnieuw, met het gevolg, dat de Indische regeering overging tot het stelsel van concentratie, d. w. z. de veroverde streken werden prijsgegeven en men beperkte zich tot de verdediging van een versterkte stelling om Kota-Radja. Langen tijd scheen het, dat de Atjehneezen zouden winnen.”

The textbook’s narrative fixes the concentration system as the consequence of two prior events: the 1879 conquest of Groot-Atjeh by Van der Heyden, and the subsequent Dutch error of replacing the military administration by a civil one before the country had been genuinely subdued. The civil administration triggered the resumption of Atjehnese resistance, and the Indische regeering — unable to maintain the conquered territory — reverted to the concentration system: the abandonment of the interior, the retreat to a fortified perimeter around Kota-Radja, and the defensive posture that defined the Dutch war effort for the next two decades.

The fortified perimeter

The fortified perimeter around Kota-Radja — the versterkte stelling of the textbook’s formulation — was the physical form of the concentration system. The perimeter was defined by the postenlinie — the chain of military posts that ringed the colonial capital — and it was served by the Atjeh-tramway network, whose original line of 1875 from Oelèe Lheuë to Koeta Radja and whose 1885 belt-tramway along the postenlinie were the logistical infrastructure of the defensive system. The Verbraak chaplaincy — with its routine of ommegang langs den postenketen (“circuit along the post-chain”) — was the religious ministration of the perimeter.

The long defensive phase

The concentration system defined the Dutch war effort in Atjeh from the early 1880s to the late 1890s — a period of nearly two decades in which, in the schoolroom memory, the Atjehnese seemed poised to win. The defensive posture of the concentration system was finally broken by the appointment of General Vetter with onbeperkte volmacht (unlimited authority) after the 1896 defection of Toekoe Oemar, and by the subsequent renewed offensive of Van Heutsz that brought the war to its military conclusion in 1903.

Significance in the schoolroom narrative

The concentration system is significant for the encyclopedia of Achehnese history, in the schoolroom memory, on three counts. First, it is the principal Dutch military strategy of the central phase of the Atjeh-oorlog — the defensive posture that defined the Dutch war effort for nearly two decades, from the early 1880s to the late 1890s. Second, it is the document, in the schoolroom memory, of the limits of the Dutch military capacity in Atjeh: the conquered territory could not be held, and the colonial government was forced to retreat to a fortified perimeter around Kota-Radja. Third, it is the proximate cause of the late-phase Dutch operational recovery — the appointment of Vetter with unlimited authority and the renewed offensive of Van Heutsz — that brought the war to its military conclusion. The schoolroom judgement — “Langen tijd scheen het, dat de Atjehneezen zouden winnen” — is the documentary measure of the depth of the Dutch predicament under the concentration system.

Account from De onderwerping van Atjeh (Van Heutsz, 1893) — the fout of the post-Van-der-Heijden decade

Van Heutsz’s 1893 tract treats the Concentratie — also Concentratiestelsel, het stelsel van concentratie, or the geconcentreerde stelling van Groot-Atjeh — as his principal bête noire: the fout from which the policy oscillations of 1884–1892 followed. The Concentratie was decided by the secret sessions of the Staten-Generaal of 16–17 June 1884 and ordered by besluit of Gouverneur-Generaal van Rees of 19 August 1884. The decision came at the end of a political sequence Van Heutsz treats as the closing chapter of the Laging Tobias governorship. Laging Tobias — who had introduced the scheepvaartregeling in May 1883 and had sought, in the failed overtures of June and October 1883, to draw the pretender-sultan Toeankoe Mohamad Daoed into a Dutch-managed settlement — had asked to resign when the Regeering rejected the one remedy from which, in the existing circumstances, he had expected a good outcome:

“Meende de Gouverneur Laging Tobias zijn ontslag te moeten vragen, toen de Regeering het eenige middel verwierp waarvan hij in de bestaande omstandigheden een goede uitkomst verwachtte. Dit was in Februari 1884.”

The resignation was at first declined by the outgoing G.-G. ’s Jacob, but accepted after ‘s Jacob’s own departure. The new G.-G. Van Rees, who visited Atjeh in March 1884, “betuigde, dat hij de inzichten van den Gouverneur Laging Tobias omtrent den met Atjeh te volgen weg vrij juist vond” — declared that he found Governor Laging Tobias’s views on the path to be followed with Atjeh quite correct — but the declaration was overridden by the Concentratiebesluit of 19 August 1884. “Met dit advies was het natuurlijk onmogelijk den Heer Laging Tobias met de uitvoering te belasten van de concentratie, die bij besluit van 19 Augustus 1884 bevolen werd” — with this advice, it was of course impossible to charge Mr Laging Tobias with the execution of the Concentratie ordered by besluit of 19 August 1884. He had resigned rather than carry out a policy he believed wrong; and the Concentratie was entrusted instead to the krijgsmacht under Generaal Demmeni: “Het bestuur weder in handen gegeven aan een militair, den kolonel Demmeni”.

The two components: withdrawal and rigoureuse blokkade

The Concentratiebesluit of 19 August 1884 is the founding instrument of the Concentratie. The besluit ordered two things in combination. The first was the withdrawal of all outlying Dutch posts to the geconcentreerde stelling van Groot-Atjeh — the defensive perimeter around Kota Radja that Van Swieten had established in 1874 with 2500 men. The withdrawal meant the abandonment of the coastal occupation Generaal Pel had completed in February 1877 and of the Groot-Atjehsche conquests Van der Heijden had made in 1878–1879. The second was the rigoureuse blokkade of the entire coast from Tamiang to Troemon — the closure authorised by Staatsblad No. 105 van 1884 and entrusted for execution to the marine. The political accompaniment was “de politiek van non-interventie gepaard met eene rigoureuse blokkade” — the policy of non-intervention combined with a rigorous blockade — under which the Dutch would abstain from the internal affairs of the coastal statelets and confine themselves to the defensive perimeter and the naval closure.

The abolition of posts at Telok Semawé and Samalanga

The most striking operational feature of the Concentratie was the abolition of the outlying posts — the very posts whose occupation Pel had prescribed in 1875 and whose completion Diemont had marked in February 1877. The most important of these were the posts at Telok Semawé on the Noordkust and at Samalanga on the Oostkust — the posts from which the Dutch had exercised direct supervision over the trade of the coastal statelets and through which the scheepvaartregeling of May 1883 had been administered. The withdrawal of these posts — together with the abolition of the controleurs in the onderafdeelingen of Groot-Atjeh — reduced the Dutch presence to the concentrated stelling of Kota-Radja and the few residual ports through which Demmeni’s partieele blokkade was applied. Van Heutsz treats the abolition as the “ons prijsgeven van de veroverde positie in de vallei van Groot-Atjeh en ons verhuizen op groote schaal” — the giving up of the conquered position in the valley of Groot-Atjeh and our large-scale moving — into the geconcentreerde linie. After 1884, Van Heutsz writes, the Dutch were reduced to waiting: “In de geconcentreerde stelling van Groot-Atjeh — zonder eenigen dwang — geduldig afwachten” — in the concentrated stelling of Groot-Atjeh — without any pressure — patiently waiting. The valley of Groot-Atjeh, conquered in 1878–1879 by Van der Heijden’s campaigns against the XXII and XXVI Moekims, was thus abandoned for the next decade; it would not be re-conquered until the Van Teijn-era re-imposition of the closure (1888–1890) and the Van Heutsz campaigns after 1898.

Demmeni’s hybrid execution: the tweeslachtig ding

Demmeni, who had been appointed on the explicit understanding that he would “eenvoudig het hem voorgeschreven stelsel in practijk zou brengen” — simply put into practice the system prescribed to him — declined to apply the full Concentratie as prescribed. Wavering under the betoogingen and nota’s of Resident Scherer, co-signed by the assistent-resident van Groot-Atjeh van Langen, Demmeni neither applied the rigorous blokkade nor sustained the scheepvaartregeling Laging Tobias had introduced in May 1883:

“De Generaal Demmeni werd door Scherer’s betoogingen en zijne nota’s, waarmede de assistent-resident van Groot-Atjeh van Langen instemde, aan het wankelen gebracht in zijn plan om eenvoudig uit te voeren, wat hem door de Regeering opgedragen was en voerde niet de algemeene rigoureuse blokkade in, maar liet slechts sommige gedeelten van de kust sluiten en blokkeeren en dit niet eens consequent, terwijl hij voor andere gedeelten, reeds bij besluit van 13 October 1884 eene soort scheepvaartregeling invoerde”.

The compromise produced what Van Heutsz calls the tweeslachtig ding — the two-headed thing: “eene soort van scheepvaartregeling, die niet deugde … en naast die verkeerde scheepvaartregeling eene partieele blokkade, die natuurlijk, in verband met de eerste, evenmin nut kon stichten”. The scheepvaartregeling Demmeni had introduced for some of the coastal states remained in force until approximately the end of 1885 — and was finally abolished by the Regeering in December 1885, when “voor het vervolg zelfs de geringste beperking van den handel der kuststaten met het buitenland, onder welken vorm ook, verboden” was made.

Van Heutsz’s critique

Van Heutsz’s critique of the Concentratie is sustained across the diagnostic and prescriptive halves of the 1893 tract. The first charge is that the Concentratie was a fout — a mistake — because it surrendered the conquered position in the valley of Groot-Atjeh that Van der Heijden had won in 1878–1879 and replaced the active-defensive posture with a passive one. The second charge is that the Concentratie was incoherent — its two components, the defensive withdrawal and the rigorous blokkade, were mutually incompatible, because the withdrawal of the outlying posts eliminated the very ports through which the scheepvaartregeling could have been administered and the blokkade could have been enforced. The third charge is that the Concentratie was executed half-way: Demmeni neither applied the rigorous blokkade the Regeering had prescribed nor sustained the scheepvaartregeling Laging Tobias had introduced, but produced instead the hybrid tweeslachtig ding that combined the worst of both worlds. The fourth charge is that the Concentratie was politically unaccompanied: the politiek van non-interventie that accompanied it left the coastal statelets free to feed the interior’s resistance, so that the cajoleering-decade of 1884–1892 became, in Van Heutsz’s diagnosis, the period in which the Regeering prescribed a Concentratie, the Governor declined to apply it, the colony’s best expert resigned rather than watch his system be diluted, and the scheepvaartregeling of May 1883 was finally abolished in December 1885.

Significance of the Van Heutsz account

The Concentratie’s significance in the Aceh Wiki History record, in Van Heutsz’s diagnosis, rests on three things: it was the policy the Regeering prescribed in 1884 as the operational counterpart to the blokkade — the withdrawal of all outlying Dutch posts to the geconcentreerde stelling van Groot-Atjeh combined with the politiek van non-interventie in the internal affairs of the coastal statelets; it was the policy whose hybrid execution by Demmeni produced, in Van Heutsz’s diagnosis, the tweeslachtig ding of the partieele blokkade and the soort scheepvaartregeling that defined the cajoleering-decade of 1884–1892; and it was the polemical target against which Van Heutsz defined, in the 1893 tract, his own prescription — the substitution of the active-defensive posture for the passive one, the substitution of the scheepvaartregeling-cum-closure for the partieele blokkade-cum-non-interventie, and the substitution of the assumption of the hatsil and the opium-pacht for the cajoleering-policy of paying hostile chiefs traktement. The Concentratie is, in Van Heutsz’s narrative, the original fout of the post-Van-der-Heijden decade — the measure whose imposition by Van Rees’s besluit of 19 August 1884 opened the cajoleering-era and whose reversal by the Van Teijn closure of 1888–1890 began, in Van Heutsz’s diagnosis, the recovery the 1893 tract would generalise into a prescription.

Account in Hooijer’s De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh (1897)

The Geconcentreerde linie — the “concentrated line” — was the fortified perimeter around Kota Radja within which the Netherlands Indies army confined itself in Groot-Atjeh from 1884, and outside which the temporary posts described in De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh were erected between 1893 and 1896.

Origin

G. B. Hooijer recorded that the Dutch withdrew behind the line in 1884, when de onverzoenlijke en slechts voor macht bukkende Atjehers had been able to take up arms again and compelled the abandonment of advanced positions such as Anagaloeng. He referred to the resulting decade as the tienjarige concentratie periode — the ten-year concentration period — during which, apart from the failed attempt on Kaloet and the assault on Kota Toeankoe, the Dutch had only once operated outside the line in strength against the Moslemin.

Snouck Hurgronje’s image

Hooijer opened his narrative with the judgment of Snouck Hurgronje that for years and years the Dutch had lain within the concentrated line als een aap aan een ketting, door een aantal knapen, zonder veel gevaar voor hen zelven, tot dol wordens toe geplaagd — like an ape on a chain, teased to distraction by a number of boys who ran little risk themselves. The sorties made had profited the Dutch little and served only to keep the surrounding population at a distance.

The opening of the line

The turn came when the Dutch sat quietly in their cage and gave the surrounding population the chance to pick the fruits growing beneath it — that is, when they opened their hitherto closed line to it. The Moslemin, unable to trouble the Dutch, then began to attack what the population had gained from them, and their game palled. Toekoe Oemar placed himself at the head of the resulting movement and drove the Moslemin from his kampongs (villages), and the Dutch resolved to make use of him.

The outposts beyond the line

At Oemar’s request the Dutch occupied temporary posts outside the line and spread their military force over a wider area, linked by twenty-three blokhuizen garrisoned by his legioen or by friendly Achehnese. The southern group comprised Tjot Goeë, Biloel and Lam Koenjit; the eastern group Toengkoeb, Kroeng Kali, Masdjid Siem, Tjot Rang and Kroeng Gloempang; and the south-eastern group Lam Barih, Anagaloeng, Lam Soet and Senelop. Posts within the line named by Hooijer include Tjot Iri, Pakan Kroeng Tjoet, Lamjong and Lamreng.

Collapse

All the posts outside the line were invested after the defection of Teukoe Oemar on 29 March 1896 and lifted, burnt or slighted by the end of April 1896, leaving only Tjot Goeë, retained since April 1895 as a permanent strongpoint.

Account from the Maréchaussée Jubileum-nummer (1930)

the 1930 jubilee number of Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië summarises the origin and the end of the concentratie in a few sentences, from the standpoint of the Korps Maréchaussée whose creation it occasioned.

Shortly before, under the administration of General K. van der Heyden, the Dutch action had extended over the valley of Groot-Atjeh; then “op 19 August 1884 werd tot de z.g. concentratie besloten en werden onze troepen tot defensieve houding gedwongen” — on 19 August 1884 the so-called concentration was decided upon and the Dutch troops were forced into a defensive attitude. “Kleine benden slopen de linie binnen, vielen onze convooien aan en vernielden kunstwerken” — small bands crept inside the line, attacked the convoys and destroyed engineering works, and overvallen occurred “met schier verbijsterende regelmaat.”

Against this the carrying of weapons by the Atjehnese population was made punishable and a passenstelsel introduced; but the evil was not thereby overcome, and in April 1890 a separate corps, the Maréchaussée, was raised under the further approval of the King.

The system was abandoned in 1896: “het verraad van Teukoe Djohan alias Oemar in 1896 dwong het Bestuur van Atjeh het, in 1884, aangenomen stelsel van concentratie te verlaten” — see Defection of Teukoe Oemar (1896). From that year the Maréchaussée entered the purely military field alongside its police and administrative duties.

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Na 1795: Repetitie-boekje voor de Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis ten behoeve van Hoogere Burgerscholen en Candidaat-Notarissen, by F. Roorda (Groningen: P. Noordhoff, 1924), p. 47.

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De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh, door G. B. Hooijer, Gep. Luit.-Kolonel O. I. Leger, met 24 platen (Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn; Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1897). Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Centrale Boekerij, Amsterdam. OCR-filename: 20260719_140140_DLP-134-De_verlaten_posten_in_Groot_Atjeh_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt, pp. 9, 10, 26, 48, 54.

Acknowledgement of sources. This article is a single consolidated account combining the material previously held in this entry with the account given in De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh (1897) by G. B. Hooijer. Dutch terminology has been rendered in English, the original Dutch being retained only in direct quotations and in bibliographic citations.

Het Korps Maréchaussée in Atjeh: De Atjehsche Garde, 1890 - 2 April 1930 (“The Corps of Maréchaussée in Atjeh: The Atjehnese Guard”), Extra Jubileum-nummer of Het Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië issued for the fortieth anniversary of the corps (1930), pp. 1-16. Offprint DLP-143, Bibliotheek KITLV, accession 621 116 794.

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