Njakumar was the republican police coordinator for Atjeh in 1953, who — acting on incoming intelligence reports — ordered guards placed on all important public buildings from 10 September 1953, eleven days before Teungkoe Moehamad Daoed Beureu-éh proclaimed Atjeh’s accession to the Negara Islam Indonesia on 21 September 1953.
Warning signs before the rebellion
Henri J. H. Alers’s Om een rode of groene Merdeka records that in early September 1953 incoming reports made it clear to Njakumar that “something was brewing,” prompting him, on 10 September, to place all important public buildings under guard. Despite this precaution, Alers notes, the government could hardly claim the rebellion came as a surprise, though it was nonetheless “a shock” — while for the general public, kept almost as poorly informed as in the colonial period, the proclamation of 21 September came as a genuine surprise. In the days before the proclamation, further incidents accumulated: an illegal shipment of firearms was discovered by bus at Pangkalan Bandan on 11 September, the military post at Kuala Simpang was fired on, and by 19 September the authorities had obtained a fairly complete plan for an attack on Kota-Radja.
See Also
- Teungkoe Moehamad Daoed Beureu-éh
- Atjèh’s accession to the Negara Islam Indonesia (1953)
- Kutaradja
- 1953
Source
Om een rode of groene Merdeka: Tien jaren binnenlandse politiek Indonesië, 1943–1953, by Henri J. H. Alers (Eindhoven: Uitgeverij Vulkaan, 1956), Chapter VII §35 “De Negara Islam Indonesia in Atjeh,” p. 270.
Njakumar was the republican police coordinator for Atjeh in 1953, who — acting on incoming intelligence reports — ordered guards placed on all important public buildings from 10 September 1953, eleven days before Teungkoe Moehamad Daoed Beureu-éh proclaimed Atjeh’s accession to the Negara Islam Indonesia on 21 September 1953.
Warning signs before the rebellion
Henri J. H. Alers’s Om een rode of groene Merdeka records that in early September 1953 incoming reports made it clear to Njakumar that “something was brewing,” prompting him, on 10 September, to place all important public buildings under guard. Despite this precaution, Alers notes, the government could hardly claim the rebellion came as a surprise, though it was nonetheless “a shock” — while for the general public, kept almost as poorly informed as in the colonial period, the proclamation of 21 September came as a genuine surprise. In the days before the proclamation, further incidents accumulated: an illegal shipment of firearms was discovered by bus at Pangkalan Bandan on 11 September, the military post at Kuala Simpang was fired on, and by 19 September the authorities had obtained a fairly complete plan for an attack on Kota-Radja.
See Also
- Teungkoe Moehamad Daoed Beureu-éh
- Atjèh’s accession to the Negara Islam Indonesia (1953)
- Kutaradja
- 1953
Source
Om een rode of groene Merdeka: Tien jaren binnenlandse politiek Indonesië, 1943–1953, by Henri J. H. Alers (Eindhoven: Uitgeverij Vulkaan, 1956), Chapter VII §35 “De Negara Islam Indonesia in Atjeh,” p. 270.