Panglima Moeda of Piëng was an Atjehnese war leader (panglima) of Piëng, at Rēdeb in the XXII Moekims. The statement of a wounded Atjehnese prisoner taken on 4 May 1876 identified him as the man who, a full month before it happened, had plotted the night attack on Lampagar — and who had led the attack in person.
The plotter of Lampagar
According to the prisoner, Panglima Moeda had already, a month before the attack, laid the plan for it and had come to the IV Moekims a month before to make his preparations; the kampong heads of the friendly VI Moekims — Hadji Soliman and Toekoe Amat — had given at least indirect warning of evil designs and of the gathering band; but only Hadji Aboe — whose house the Dutch had burned in April for his part in the 7 April ambush — was directly suspected, wrongly as it proved, of leading the revenge. The panglima’s plan was excellently executed: at about four in the morning of 3 May three storm parties crossed the northern fence of the almost open Lampagar camp, killed two officers and eleven other people, took rifles from the racks, and withdrew to the XXII Moekims with 11 dead. It was said afterwards that he had returned to the IV Moekims after the attack.
His name is preserved in the official reports printed by H. F. Meijer in Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876 (1883).
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Source
Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876, door H. F. Meijer (Breda: P. B. Nieuwenhuijs, 1883), chapter VII, pp. 177–178.