voorschottensysteem (English: “Advance (loan) system”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. System of providing advances à fonds perdu for house-building materials etc.
Translation
Advance (loan) system
Description
System of providing advances à fonds perdu for house-building materials etc. to new colonists; later abandoned.
Significance
The term voorschottensysteem 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. 296.