nanggroe (nge-slachten in OCR) (English: “family-based state system”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Institution that Sultan Iskandar Moeda reputedly organized/introduced in Atjeh; literally the ‘family system’.
Translation
family-based state system
Description
Institution that Sultan Iskandar Moeda reputedly organized/introduced in Atjeh; literally the ‘family system’. Represents the kinship-based political organization of Atjeh. (Note: OCR garbles the term as ‘nge-slachten’ on page 26.)
Significance
The term nanggroe (nge-slachten in OCR) 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. 26.