Massa-an was an Achehnese chief, the brother of Toekoe Moeda Daud of Selimoen, named among the principal hostile chiefs who still held out after the Dutch occupation of Selimoen on 15 August 1879, as recorded in W. Cool and G. B. Hooijer’s Eene schoone bladzijde uit Atjeh’s geschiedenis (1889).
The council in the missigit of Selimoen
On the day before the arrival of the Dutch columns — as Toekoe Moeda Daud reported to his new allies — Massa-an had been at Selimoen together with Panglima Polim, Toekoe Radja Koeala, the Iman Longbattah and other principal hostile chiefs, assembled in the missigit (mosque) of the kampong to deliberate on what was to be done. Perceiving the impossibility of defending Selimoen against the Dutch troops, the chiefs withdrew to Reng-Reng, in the VII Moekims of the landschap Pedir, a place amid wildly overgrown mountains which the troops could reach only after three day-marches. The defection of Massa-an’s own brother to the Dutch, and his escort of the Lubeck column to Indrapoeri, left the little company of the missigit council — with the pretendant Toewankoe Daoed watched by Toewankoe Haschim and the chiefs at Kemala — as the last fixed points of the military resistance in Groot-Atjeh.
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Eene schoone bladzijde uit Atjeh’s geschiedenis, door W. Cool en G. B. Hooijer (‘s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1889), p. 57. OCR-filename: 20260720_115822_DLP-135-Eene_schoone_bladzijde_uit_Atjeh_s_geschiedenis_Nemotron_OCR_v2_OCR.txt.