A controleur was a Netherlands Indies civil administrator of the Binnenlandsch Bestuur, and in Groot-Atjeh during the alliance period the office was frequently filled by army officers acting in that capacity — waarnemende controleurs — in the districts cleared outside the geconcentreerde linie.
Luitenant Neelmeyer
The one named acting controleur in De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh is Luitenant Neelmeyer, described as den waarnemenden controleur in zijn gebied — the acting controleur in the territory of T. Tjoet Toengkoeb — and as an officer who had a particular knack of dealing with that difficult chief. It was in his capacity as controleur that he knew where the Achehnese auxiliary bands were to assemble on the morning after the defection of Teukoe Oemar, and therefore rode by night to warn the garrisons of Toengkoeb and Tjot Rang.
The projected regular administration
Among the changes intended for 1896, which Hooijer suggested might have been the motive of Oemar’s defection, was the conversion of the temporary posts into fixed settlements with all their apparatus: clearance of terrain, bridges, roads, dykes and tramways, vigorous police supervision by the Korps Marechaussée, and een geregeld bestuur door onze waarnemende controleurs — a regular administration by the Dutch acting controleurs.
See Also
- Luitenant Neelmeyer
- T. Tjoet Toengkoeb
- Defection of Teukoe Oemar (1896)
- Korps Marechaussee van Atjeh en Onderhorigen
Source
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. 22, 34, 54.