The Burning of Siem and Kroeng Kali was the outcome of a Dutch column’s advance into the northern part of the XXVI Moekims of Groot-Atjeh in 1880, in which two days of fighting were required before the kampongs (villages) could be approached and set alight.
The action
Hooijer recorded that the column which in 1880 had to penetrate the northern part of the XXVI Moekims had daar reeds een krachtig verzet ondervonden en eerst na twee dagen strijd de kampongs Siem en Kroeng Kali kunnen naderen en in vlammen doen opgaan — had met a strong resistance there and could approach and burn the kampongs of Siem and Kroeng Kali only after two days of fighting.
Aftermath
When the population that had fled returned after some time, the head appointed over it by the Dutch was murdered by Toekoe Nja Hassan. The post that General van der Heijden afterwards caused to be erected at Kroeng Kali remained a thorn in the enemy’s eye and proved so great a point of attraction for the ill-disposed that a later governor resolved to slight its walls and withdraw the garrison from that advanced position.
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Source
De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh, door G. B. Hooijer, Gep. Luit.-Kolonel O. I. Leger, met 24 platen (Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn; Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1897). Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Centrale Boekerij, Amsterdam. OCR-filename: 20260719_140140_DLP-134-De_verlaten_posten_in_Groot_Atjeh_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt, p. 26.