keumpenie (English: “the Company (Dutch colonial power)”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Acehnese/Malay term for the Dutch colonial power (from ‘compagnie’, the VOC).
Translation
the Company (Dutch colonial power)
Description
Acehnese/Malay term for the Dutch colonial power (from ‘compagnie’, the VOC). Used by Teukoe Panglima Polem’s context: refrained from action against ‘the keumpenie’.
Significance
The term keumpenie 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. 57.