Hollandsch-Inlandsche school (English: “Dutch-Native school (HIS)”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Seven-year Western-style primary school comparable to Dutch lagere school.
Translation
Dutch-Native school (HIS)
Description
Seven-year Western-style primary school comparable to Dutch lagere school. 8 in Atjeh, 16 teachers, ~1,500 pupils. Subjects: Dutch, arithmetic, geography, history, nature, drawing, gymnastics, plus Maleisch. Teachers mostly inheemsch; head teacher usually European. 7 particular (private) HIS maintained by Mohammadijah and Taman-Siswa alongside government schools.
Significance
The term Hollandsch-Inlandsche school 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. 312, 313.