levées en masse (English: “mass levies / mass mobilization”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Mass religiously-based mobilization for war, used by Atjeh against ‘ungeloovige indringers’.
Translation
mass levies / mass mobilization
Description
Mass religiously-based mobilization for war, used by Atjeh against ‘ungeloovige indringers’. The Dutch would later experience the impact of this at first hand.
Significance
The term levées en masse 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.