Dienst van Verkeer en Waterstaat, a public works/transport department, appears in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in connection with Aceh. Department of Transport and Public Works.
Type
public works/transport department
Description
Department of Transport and Public Works. With Topografische Dienst studied the Tripa-vallei road trace. Also responsible for maintaining the problematic road stretch near Lho’Seumawé built over swamp and infested with crab burrows.
Significance
Dienst van Verkeer en Waterstaat 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. 80, 86.