H.B.S. Medan, a secondary school, appears in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in connection with Aceh. Hogere Burgerschool (Higher Civic School) at Medan where Aceh-based parents send their children — close enough to Langsa (160 km vs 600 km from Koeta Radja) to be ‘next door’ by outer-district standards.
Type
secondary school
Description
Hogere Burgerschool (Higher Civic School) at Medan where Aceh-based parents send their children — close enough to Langsa (160 km vs 600 km from Koeta Radja) to be ‘next door’ by outer-district standards.
Significance
H.B.S. Medan 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. 89.