Nanggroe / Familie-stelsel (institution), a traditional administrative institution, appears in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in connection with Aceh. Reputed to have been organized/introduced in Atjeh by Sultan Iskandar Moeda.
Type
traditional administrative institution
Description
Reputed to have been organized/introduced in Atjeh by Sultan Iskandar Moeda. Means ‘family system’ - the ancient kinship-based organization of Atjehnese society. (Note: OCR garbles the term as ‘nge-slachten’ on page 26.)
Significance
Nanggroe / Familie-stelsel (institution) 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. 26.