Rimba was the Malay and Atjehnese term for jungle or heavy secondary forest, and in Atjehnese land law it marked the point beyond which abandoned cultivation ceased to be recognisable as such.
Legal relevance
In the zelfbesturende landschappen, D. W. N. de Boer recorded, a stricter procedure applied where an application concerned sawah ground “die nog niet rimba geworden is” — which had not yet become jungle — and which, lying between worked sawah’s or directly adjoining them, evidently belonged to someone and had been abandoned only recently. In such a case the applicant received only a three-year bruikleen (loan for use) under padjoh asoè, not full possession. Conversely, land that had reverted to rimba was treated as waste and could be issued outright after the three-month warning term.
See Also
- Three-month warning term for re-clearance in the Atjehnese self-governing territories
- Haq padjoh asoé
- Sawah
- Beschikkingsrecht in Atjeh
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.