T. di Rangkoh is a subject named in General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943) by M. H. du Croo, in connection with the history of Atjeh and the governorship of H. N. A. Swart.
Account in du Croo’s Generaal Swart (1943)
From H. J. Schmidt
In later years he executed a commission in Teunòm: the submission of a band more than three hundred strong under T. Bén Boebon and his nephew T. di Rangkoh, with which the infantry patrols could obtain almost no contact. Knowing the district and the population through and through, Schmidt resolved to bring about a peaceful submission without shooting and without “neerleggen.” It succeeded: T. di Rangkoh and his whole band reported themselves. “The people looked wretched, their clothes hung in tatters about their emaciated bodies, and some of the eighteen women and children were practically naked.” They told how, after the raid on their ladang, they had lived exclusively on katèla and palm hearts, and how for fear of betrayal and discovery they had sought contact with nobody. They fell hungrily on the rice and fish the marechaussée at once made available, and next morning marched with the troops back to the inhabited world, three days’ march away, where they were handed over to friendly chiefs, provided with clothing and permitted to settle with their families in the gampong. Swart noted on the journal: “You have achieved a fine result, the more so since no use was made of weapons.”
From Teunòm
Schmidt’s clearing of Teunòm was one of the conditions that reduced the disturbed area of the Meulaboh country in 1909 to Beneden Wòjla, Boebon and Seunagan. In later years he executed there the commission to bring in a band more than three hundred strong under T. Bén Boebon and his nephew T. di Rangkoh, with which infantry patrols could obtain almost no contact; knowing the district and its people through and through, he brought about a peaceful submission “without shooting and without laying low.” The people came in in rags, having lived since the raid on their ladang on katèla and palm hearts, and fell hungrily on the rice and fish the marechaussée provided. H. N. A. Swart noted on the journal: “You have achieved a fine result, the more so since no use was made of weapons.” Van Heutsz had once written on a journal of Swart’s: “now it is time for Captain Swart to go to Teunom.”
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Generaal Swart, Pacificator van Atjeh (“General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh”), by M. H. du Croo, Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with the collaboration of H. J. Schmidt, Titular Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with a foreword by His Excellency Lieutenant-General K.N.I.L. (retired) G. K. Dijkstra (Maastricht: N.V. Leiter-Nypels, 1943), passim.