Kompeuni was the Acehnese and Malay name — also written Kompeni, Keumpeni or Compenie — for the Dutch colonial power, its army and its administration.
The word runs through the whole of Generaal Swart. Under Deijckerhoff’s conciliatory governorship, “als de Kompeni (“the Company (the Dutch power)“did not dare, he at once dared twice as much!” After 1908, by contrast, “ditmaal beschikte de Keumpeni (“the Company (the Dutch power)“over commanders and soldiers who had formed themselves in the heavy work of war.” Surrendered firearms went “to the arms store of the Company* (“the Company (the Dutch power)”)”; Lamster recorded that returning uitgewekenen were told “that the Company would make their return as easy as possible for them.” In the Lhong affair of 1914 the enemy supposed himself surrounded because he understood “that the Company would not send three constabulary men so far into the forest.”
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Generaal Swart, Pacificator van Atjeh (“General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh”), by M. H. du Croo, Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with the collaboration of H. J. Schmidt, Titular Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with a foreword by His Excellency Lieutenant-General K.N.I.L. (retired) G. K. Dijkstra (Maastricht: N.V. Leiter-Nypels, 1943), passim.