A rintisan (Malay, a cut path or cleared line) was the boundary path by which a clearer of waste land in Atjeh joined the stakes planted at the corners of his terrain, thereby making his occupation visible.
Function in the law of occupation
D. W. N. de Boer described occupation as being announced in the first instance by planting ordinary stakes at the corners of the ground and connecting these to one another by a rintisan; and in a further stage by complete fencing, pageue. The cutting of the rintisan was thus the elementary act of appropriation, prior to enclosure and prior to the acquisition of the settled milik.
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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.