Kingaleezen was the term used by D. W. N. de Boer, alongside Chineezen, for the non-indigenous natives resident in Atjeh to whom the beschikkingsrecht applied with greater rigour than to the Atjehnese themselves.
Legal position
Towards such non-indigenous cultivators — “niet-inheemsche Inlanders, resp. niet-Inlanders” as De Boer’s cautious phrase ran — the right of avail asserted itself somewhat more strictly. The non-indigenous settler was obliged not only to pay the haq radja taléë but in addition to enter into the thiplah-tano contract, receiving a pangkaj of a buffalo, seed and a twenty-guilder belandja, and binding himself to cede half the cleared land, or each year half the half-crop, to the oeléëbalang. Where rice fields were concerned, the contract was granted only on an undertaking to work at least five naleh of seed — about 0.8 hectare.
Against this stood the advantage that half of the cleared sawah became the settler’s “property,” so that on departure he might sell that half, subject only to a right of preference in the radja.
Later government control
De Boer noted in a footnote that alienation of land to persons not belonging to the indigenous population had since been taken in hand by the Gouvernement, under article 15 sub I in conjunction with article 29 sub 3 of the Zelfbestuursregelen.
See Also
Source
Het recht op den grond in Atjeh, by D. W. N. de Boer, dated Scheveningen, November 1931, pp. 59-80. Offprint DLP-141, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, ‘s-Gravenhage; Bibliotheek KITLV accession 0060 4460 60 081470 428.