Meu’oeë was the Atjehnese term for the working of sawah’s — the ploughing and preparation of the rice field — and specifically for the first working of the ground of a new season.
Legal significance
The period between the harvest (keumeukoh) and the meu’oeë of the following season was the only time of year in which a pledge of land under gala could be redeemed by teuboih.
In the terminology of sharecropping
The verb underlies the name of the most one-sided of the Atjehnese share-cropping figures, aboen meu’oeë — the putting out to contract of the working of the sawah — in which the giver supplied ground, cattle, seed, planting wage and subsistence, and the cultivator received one-fifth of the harvest.
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.