kafir / kafir-haat (English: “unbeliever / hatred of unbelievers”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Term for non-Muslims (especially Christians/Dutch).
Translation
unbeliever / hatred of unbelievers
Description
Term for non-Muslims (especially Christians/Dutch). Kafir-haat = hatred of unbelievers, long cultivated in regions like Keumala even after the war. Religious framing of the Aceh War as jihad against ‘ongeloovige indringers’ (unbelieving invaders).
Significance
The term kafir / kafir-haat 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. 28, 62.