Pangoeléé hareukat — “the master of all breadwinning” — was the Atjehnese honorific for the rice field, expressing its standing as the foundation of livelihood.
In the condemnation of sale
The phrase is preserved in the Atjehnese censure of the sale of inherited rice fields. As C. Snouck Hurgronje wrote in De Atjehers, Vol. I, p. 312, quoted by D. W. N. de Boer, the man who commits peupia oemòng — the breaking up of his rice field — thereby ruins the pangoeléé hareukat, the master of all breadwinning. The dictum supplies the reason why complete alienation of a rice field counted as a disgrace and why poebléë of rice fields was practically unknown in Atjeh.
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.