Radja Ibrahim was, after the old writers cited by Verstege (and by kolonel Gerlach, who in his 1878 book on the Atjehers followed “different old historians”), the eldest son of the aged stadhouder of Atjeh, appointed by his sovereign, the Sultan of Pedir, as his father’s successor; he became that father’s executioner, kept the old man shut up in a pit (koel) until his death, and then — overthrowing his lawful lord and benefactor as well — subdued everything by the force of arms, and so made Atjeh independent and one of the mightiest realms of Sumatra. “Zoo werden Atjeh’s zelfstandigheid en grootheid in 1521 slechts op misdaad gegrondvest” (“Thus were Atjeh’s independence and greatness in 1521 only founded on crime”), Verstege quotes, in his sketch of the national character of the Atjehnese — a sketch formed, like the judgments of Admiral de Beaulieu and the contrôleur Kroesen, in order to test the concentration policy against the known history and temper of the people (cf. Concentratie-stelsel (1884-1896)).
See Also
- Pedir
- Atjeh
- Majoor Gerlach
- 1521
- Een beroep op het Nederlandsche volk in zake het Atjeh-vraagstuk (Verstege, 1886)
Source
Een beroep op het Nederlandsche volk in zake het Atjeh-vraagstuk, door J. J. W. E. Verstege (Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy, 1886), p. 10. OCR-filename: 20260801_235605_DLP-158-Een_beroep_op_het_Nederlandsche_volk_in_zake_het_Atjeh_vraagstuk_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt.