Zelfbestuur (self-administration), a colonial administrative system, appears in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in connection with Aceh. System in which a landschap (region) is governed by a native zelfbestuurder (self-administrator) under Dutch suzerainty.

Type

colonial administrative system

Description

System in which a landschap (region) is governed by a native zelfbestuurder (self-administrator) under Dutch suzerainty. Example: Teukoe Hadji Tjhi’ Mohamad Djohan Alamsjah of Peusangan. Zelfbestuurders were ‘ingesteld’ (engaged) in recent ordonnance on cattle control.

Significance

Zelfbestuur (self-administration) 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. 68, 69.