Kapitein Miseroy was a Dutch captain of the Netherlands East Indies Army for whom a gravestone was erected at Anagaloeng during the period when the Dutch were masters of that place, and upon which, after their withdrawal behind the geconcentreerde linie in 1884, the oelama Teungkoe di Tiro died.
The gravestone at Anagaloeng
Hooijer recorded that the benteng the Dutch had held at Anagaloeng was abandoned in 1884, when the Achehnese — onverzoenlijk en slechts voor macht bukkende, irreconcilable and bowing only to power — took up arms again and compelled the Dutch to withdraw behind the concentrated line. The man who had then been their spiritual leader in the holy war, Oelama Teungkoe di Tiro, breathed his last at Anagaloeng liggende op den grafsteen, die er, ten tijde, dat wij er nog heer en meester waren, voor den Kapitein Miseroy was opgericht — lying on the gravestone that had been erected there for Captain Miseroy while the Dutch were still lords and masters of the place.
Significance
The image of the Achehnese oelama dying upon a Dutch officer’s tombstone in the fortification the Dutch had abandoned was used by Hooijer as an emblem of the reversals of the concentratie period, in which the same ground changed hands repeatedly between 1879 and 1896.
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Source
De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh, door G. B. Hooijer, Gep. Luit.-Kolonel O. I. Leger, met 24 platen (Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn; Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1897). Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Centrale Boekerij, Amsterdam. OCR-filename: 20260719_140140_DLP-134-De_verlaten_posten_in_Groot_Atjeh_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt, p. 48.