hevea (English: “rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis)”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Rubber tree; cultivation boomed from 1910 onward, attracted by British-colony profits.
Translation
rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis)
Description
Rubber tree; cultivation boomed from 1910 onward, attracted by British-colony profits. Total area 34,080 H.A. as of end 1937; export 11,800,000 K.G. in 1937. Worst hit by economic depression.
Significance
The term hevea 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. 194, 198, 201.