eige beheer (English: “Own management (direct rule)”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Initial administrative choice for Groot-Atjeh after 1874, taking it into direct Dutch management pending a decision between direct bestuur or a vazalstaat under a Sultan’s heir.
Translation
Own management (direct rule)
Description
Initial administrative choice for Groot-Atjeh after 1874, taking it into direct Dutch management pending a decision between direct bestuur or a vazalstaat under a Sultan’s heir. Direct rule was chosen.
Significance
The term eige beheer 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. 321.