transversaalweg (English: “transversal road (cross-road)Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. 210 km road project from Sigli to Meulaboh connecting the Noordkust to the Westkust.
Translation
transversal roadTransverse road
Description
210 km road project from Sigli to Meulaboh connecting the Noordkust to the Westkust. By 1930 about 100 km built from Sigli and ~70 km (OCR garbled) from Meulaboh; further construction suspended in 1930 due to high cost. Missing link through uninhabited mountainous terrain estimated at c. 1 million guilders.
Significance
The term transversaalweg 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. 51, 60, 287.