Teuku Chut Lamreueng, also called simply Teuku Lamreueng, was a panglima sagi of the XXVI Mukims of Great Acheh in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. He owed his elevation to a contested succession, and his career illustrates the chronic disorder into which the appointment of the sagi-chiefs had fallen in the years immediately preceding the Dutch war.
When the previous panglima of the XXVI Mukims died (around 1870), one Teuku Muda Lampaseh was, according to the adat, the proper successor; he was accordingly, after reporting himself in the Dalam, solemnly recognized by the sultan as panglima. Even before he had quitted the Dalam, however, the firing of guns was heard from the direction of the XXVI Mukims. On enquiry it appeared that the people of that district, who objected to Teuku Muda Lampaseh on the ground that he was an opium-smoker, had installed in his stead a younger brother of the deceased panglima — Teuku Chut Lamreueng, the father of the subsequent panglima Teuku Nya’ Banta (who is also called Teuku Lamreueng).
The sultan, unable to enforce his choice, knew no better way out of the difficulty than to recognize the second aspirant as well, so that there were then two panglimas in the XXVI Mukims. The double panglimaship continued, after the journeys to Keumala undertaken by the uleebalangs who had tendered their submission to the government, with the court’s eventual recognition of Teuku Nya’ Banta. In practice, however, Teuku Juhan (the son of Teuku Muda Lampaseh, who was appointed panglima after his father’s death) was not able to pose as a rival of Teuku Nya’ Banta.
At the commencement of the war in 1873 both chiefs fled to Keumala. Teuku Chut Lamreueng in the end re-established himself in his territory and tendered his submission to the Dutch Government. For this act of submission he was murdered in Pidie — whither he had gone to fetch his family — by the adherents of the Lampaseh faction. His infant son escaped the same fate through the help of a faithful servant. That son was afterwards recognized by the Dutch Government as Panglima of the XXVI Mukims, while after the death of Teuku Muda Lampaseh the latter’s son Teuku Juhan was appointed panglima at the same time. The double panglimaship was thus continued, though the real power lay with the son of the murdered Lamreueng.
The history of the Lamreueng line is one of the most vivid episodes in Snouck Hurgronje’s account of the breakdown of the old order in Great Acheh, and a striking example of the way in which the old Achehnese court was reduced to ratifying what had already been decided by tribal opinion and the force of arms.
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The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.
Teuku Chut Lamreueng, also called simply Teuku Lamreueng, was a panglima sagi of the XXVI Mukims of Great Acheh in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. He owed his elevation to a contested succession, and his career illustrates the chronic disorder into which the appointment of the sagi-chiefs had fallen in the years immediately preceding the Dutch war.
When the previous panglima of the XXVI Mukims died (around 1870), one Teuku Muda Lampaseh was, according to the adat, the proper successor; he was accordingly, after reporting himself in the Dalam, solemnly recognized by the sultan as panglima. Even before he had quitted the Dalam, however, the firing of guns was heard from the direction of the XXVI Mukims. On enquiry it appeared that the people of that district, who objected to Teuku Muda Lampaseh on the ground that he was an opium-smoker, had installed in his stead a younger brother of the deceased panglima — Teuku Chut Lamreueng, the father of the subsequent panglima Teuku Nya’ Banta (who is also called Teuku Lamreueng).
The sultan, unable to enforce his choice, knew no better way out of the difficulty than to recognize the second aspirant as well, so that there were then two panglimas in the XXVI Mukims. The double panglimaship continued, after the journeys to Keumala undertaken by the uleebalangs who had tendered their submission to the government, with the court’s eventual recognition of Teuku Nya’ Banta. In practice, however, Teuku Juhan (the son of Teuku Muda Lampaseh, who was appointed panglima after his father’s death) was not able to pose as a rival of Teuku Nya’ Banta.
At the commencement of the war in 1873 both chiefs fled to Keumala. Teuku Chut Lamreueng in the end re-established himself in his territory and tendered his submission to the Dutch Government. For this act of submission he was murdered in Pidie — whither he had gone to fetch his family — by the adherents of the Lampaseh faction. His infant son escaped the same fate through the help of a faithful servant. That son was afterwards recognized by the Dutch Government as Panglima of the XXVI Mukims, while after the death of Teuku Muda Lampaseh the latter’s son Teuku Juhan was appointed panglima at the same time. The double panglimaship was thus continued, though the real power lay with the son of the murdered Lamreueng.
The history of the Lamreueng line is one of the most vivid episodes in Snouck Hurgronje’s account of the breakdown of the old order in Great Acheh, and a striking example of the way in which the old Achehnese court was reduced to ratifying what had already been decided by tribal opinion and the force of arms.
See Also
Source
The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.