schakel-officieren (English: “Liaison officers”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Military officers stationed at semi-permanent or temporary bivaks in unreliable regions, tasked with patrolling the surrounding area and forming a link between the onderafdeelingschef and the local chiefs/population.
Translation
Liaison officers
Description
Military officers stationed at semi-permanent or temporary bivaks in unreliable regions, tasked with patrolling the surrounding area and forming a link between the onderafdeelingschef and the local chiefs/population. Still functioning at Blang Pidië, Djeuram, Koeala Bhée, Geunteuët, and Lököp.
Significance
The term schakel-officieren 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. 327, 328.