R. G. Doorman was the author of the 1939 article De gevangeneming van den ex-pretendent Sultan van Atjeh, Toeanangkoe Mohammad Dawat, na 32 jaar ballingschap den 7en Febr. 1939 overleden te Mr.-Cornelis (“The capture of the ex-pretender Sultan of Atjeh, Toeanangkoe Mohammad Dawat, who after 32 years of exile died at Meester-Cornelis on 7 February 1939”), published in De Indische Gids, vol. 61, p. 308 e.v. The article is recorded as No. 563 in Van Meurs’s Literatuur-Overzicht over het jaar 1939 (The Hague, 1940), in the Sumatra chapter.
The 1939 article
Doorman’s article, published in De Indische Gids (The Indies Guide) in 1939 — the year of the death of the ex-pretender Sultan Toeanangkoe Mohammad Dawat — recorded the capture (gevangeneming) of the pretender, the circumstances of his thirty-two-year exile, and the fact of his death at Meester-Cornelis (now Jatinegara, a suburb of Batavia) on 7 February 1939. The article was a prompt obituary notice, published in the same year as the death it records, and it is the source for the date 7 February 1939 in the corpus — the terminus ad quem of the colonial-period Atjehnese sultanate. The thirty-two-year duration of the exile, counted back from 1939, places the beginning of the exile in 1907 — the year of the Atjéh-enquête and of the 1907–1908 flare-up of resistance under van Daalen’s governorship — suggesting that the pretender’s capture and banishment were part of the Dutch response to the late phase of the Atjeh-oorlog.
Significance
For AcehWiki, R. G. Doorman is significant as the author of the 1939 obituary notice of the last Atjehnese pretender Sultan, Toeanangkoe Mohammad Dawat — the source for the date 7 February 1939 in the corpus, and thus for the terminus ad quem of the colonial-period Atjehnese sultanate.
See Also
- De gevangeneming van den ex-pretendent Sultan van Atjeh, Toeanangkoe Mohammad Dawat (Doorman, 1939)
- Toeanangkoe Mohammad Dawat
- Literatuur-Overzicht over het jaar 1939 (Van Meurs, 1940)
- H. van Meurs
- Aceh War
- Atjéh-enquête
- 1907-1908-aceh-resistance
- Mr.-Cornelis
- Jatinegara
- Batavia
- Acheh
- 7 February
- 1907
- 1939
- 1940
Source
Literatuur-Overzicht over het jaar 1939 van de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde en Geschiedenis van Nederlandsch-Indië, door H. van Meurs (‘s-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1940), Hoofdstuk III (Sumatra en naburig gebied), No. 563. Citing: R. G. Doorman, “De gevangeneming van den ex-pretendent Sultan van Atjeh, Tocangkoe Mohammad Dawat, na 32 jaar ballingschap den 7en Febr. 1939 overleden te Mr.-Cornelis,” De Indische Gids, vol. 61 (1939), p. 308 e.v.