Coolies, a labor force, appears in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in connection with Aceh. Manual laborers at the Atjeh-tram workshop (more than half Atjehers), on the Gajoweg construction (who murdered Kapitein Heinzenknecht), and elsewhere.
Type
labor force
Description
Manual laborers at the Atjeh-tram workshop (more than half Atjehers), on the Gajoweg construction (who murdered Kapitein Heinzenknecht), and elsewhere.
Significance
Coolies is recorded by Jongejan as part of the institutional landscape 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. 59, 70.