The Wasé — also called hacil — was the heerlijk recht (lordly right) paid to the oeléebalang on each picol of pepper produced in his landschap. The wasé oeléebalang was a ground-right, and when ‘het landschap’ was instituted as a self-governing unit, the wasé oeléebalang belonged to the landschapskas. The hacil is now, in Broersma’s account, a guilder per picol; the pangkaigever — usually the oeléebalang or an oeléebalang tjoet — receives separately f 2.50 per picol, of which he gives the peutoeha f 0.50. The hacil is the principal revenue of the oeléebalang from the pepper-trade, and the principal means by which the landschap participates in the pepper-economy.
The 1915 Regulation
In 1915 the colonial government came with a new regulation, by which the customs-office no longer had any concern. The hacil tanah or wasé oeléebalang was to be divided fifty-fifty between the landschap and the pangkaigever and the peutoeha. That regulation too has not encouraged the pangkaigever — ‘ook die regeling heeft den verstrekker van kapitaal niet aangemoedigd.‘
See Also
Source
Verkenningen in Atjeh, by Dr. R. Broersma (De Locomotief, October 1923), chapter V, ‘Perlak, land van peper en olie’, pp. 32–33.
Source
Verkenningen in Atjeh, by Dr. R. Broersma (De Locomotief, October 1923); Atjeh Patchouli-Olie, by Ir. W. Spoon (1932), where applicable.