postendokter (English: “district doctor”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Doctor who regularly visits the small polikliniekjes (clinics) of the little towns along the road from Sigli.
Translation
district doctor
Description
Doctor who regularly visits the small polikliniekjes (clinics) of the little towns along the road from Sigli.
Significance
The term postendokter 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. 64.