napakah (English: “husband’s duty to provide wife’s livelihood”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Husband’s obligation to provide for his wife’s livelihood once the bruidsschat is paid and she belongs to him.
Translation
husband’s duty to provide wife’s livelihood
Description
Husband’s obligation to provide for his wife’s livelihood once the bruidsschat is paid and she belongs to him.
Significance
The term napakah 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. 133.