Teuku Ne’ (old) — designated by Snouck Hurgronje as “the old Teuku Ne’ (the second predecessor of the present chief)” — was the hereditary uleebalang of Meura’sa in the XXV Mukims of Great Acheh at the beginning of the Dutch operations in Acheh in 1873. He is one of the four great chiefs on whose counsel the Sultan was traditionally held to depend, together with Teuku Kali, the Panglima Meuseugit Raya and the Imeum of Lueng Bata. His house, which bore the hereditary title Ne’ (“grandfather” of the Sultan) and the further style of Raja Muda Seutia, was the senior line of the Meura’sa chiefdom.
The old Teuku Ne’ was uleebalang of Meura’sa at the outbreak of the war in 1873. The chiefdom of Meura’sa was at that time the most considerable in the XXV Mukims: in earlier days it had extended over both the great mukim itself and the VI Mukims, until the hereditary uleebalang of the VI Mukims, Teuku Nanta Seutia, succeeded in detaching the VI Mukims from the control of Teuku Ne’. The protests of the latter, reiterated down to the present day, were of no avail against this secession. The old Teuku Ne’ thus ruled, at the moment of the Dutch invasion, a diminished but still powerful chiefdom.
The old Teuku Ne’ was succeeded in due course by his son Teuku Raja Itam. The line of succession, however, was interrupted in the years following the outbreak of the war. The Nanta family, having taken a prominent part in the treachery of Teuku Uma against the Dutch, was expelled from the VI Mukims in 1896, and the Ne’ family was restored to power. When the Nantas were expelled, the Dutch Government appointed as Chief Teuku Raja Itam, a son of the Teuku Ne’ who was uleebalang of Meura’sa at the beginning of the Dutch operations in Acheh.
The old Teuku Ne’ is mentioned in The Achehnese Vol. I both as the prince’s chief counsellor, in the political sense made famous by Teungku Tiro’s letter to the Dutch Government, and as the second predecessor of the present chief of Meura’sa, in the family-genealogical sense developed in Snouck Hurgronje’s account of Achehnese funerals. The “present Teuku Ne’” of the closing years of the nineteenth century — the chief of Meura’sa at the time Snouck was writing — reckoned the old Teuku Ne’ as two chiefs back in the direct line of the house. The right-hand man of the old Teuku Ne’ was Teuku Uleë Lhuë, whose grandson eventually became the present chief of Meura’sa.
The “old” Teuku Ne’ thus stands at the head of the modern history of the Meura’sa chiefdom: he was the chief who saw the outbreak of the war, the loss of the Dalam, and the flight of the Sultan to Keumala. The chiefs who succeeded him — his son Raja Itam, and his successors in the direct line — held the chiefdom under the new conditions created by the war, and exercised, under Dutch supervision, the ancient jurisdiction of the Ne’ of Meura’sa.
See Also
- Teuku Ne’ of Meura’sa
- Teuku Uleë Lhuë
- Meura’sa
- Teuku Nanta Seutia
- Panglima Meuseugit Raya
- Imeum of Lueng Bata
- Achehnese War
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.
Teuku Ne’ (old) — designated by Snouck Hurgronje as “the old Teuku Ne’ (the second predecessor of the present chief)” — was the hereditary uleebalang of Meura’sa in the XXV Mukims of Great Acheh at the beginning of the Dutch operations in Acheh in 1873. He is one of the four great chiefs on whose counsel the Sultan was traditionally held to depend, together with Teuku Kali, the Panglima Meuseugit Raya and the Imeum of Lueng Bata. His house, which bore the hereditary title Ne’ (“grandfather” of the Sultan) and the further style of Raja Muda Seutia, was the senior line of the Meura’sa chiefdom.
The old Teuku Ne’ was uleebalang of Meura’sa at the outbreak of the war in 1873. The chiefdom of Meura’sa was at that time the most considerable in the XXV Mukims: in earlier days it had extended over both the great mukim itself and the VI Mukims, until the hereditary uleebalang of the VI Mukims, Teuku Nanta Seutia, succeeded in detaching the VI Mukims from the control of Teuku Ne’. The protests of the latter, reiterated down to the present day, were of no avail against this secession. The old Teuku Ne’ thus ruled, at the moment of the Dutch invasion, a diminished but still powerful chiefdom.
The old Teuku Ne’ was succeeded in due course by his son Teuku Raja Itam. The line of succession, however, was interrupted in the years following the outbreak of the war. The Nanta family, having taken a prominent part in the treachery of Teuku Uma against the Dutch, was expelled from the VI Mukims in 1896, and the Ne’ family was restored to power. When the Nantas were expelled, the Dutch Government appointed as Chief Teuku Raja Itam, a son of the Teuku Ne’ who was uleebalang of Meura’sa at the beginning of the Dutch operations in Acheh.
The old Teuku Ne’ is mentioned in The Achehnese Vol. I both as the prince’s chief counsellor, in the political sense made famous by Teungku Tiro’s letter to the Dutch Government, and as the second predecessor of the present chief of Meura’sa, in the family-genealogical sense developed in Snouck Hurgronje’s account of Achehnese funerals. The “present Teuku Ne’” of the closing years of the nineteenth century — the chief of Meura’sa at the time Snouck was writing — reckoned the old Teuku Ne’ as two chiefs back in the direct line of the house. The right-hand man of the old Teuku Ne’ was Teuku Uleë Lhuë, whose grandson eventually became the present chief of Meura’sa.
The “old” Teuku Ne’ thus stands at the head of the modern history of the Meura’sa chiefdom: he was the chief who saw the outbreak of the war, the loss of the Dalam, and the flight of the Sultan to Keumala. The chiefs who succeeded him — his son Raja Itam, and his successors in the direct line — held the chiefdom under the new conditions created by the war, and exercised, under Dutch supervision, the ancient jurisdiction of the Ne’ of Meura’sa.
See Also
- Teuku Ne’ of Meura’sa
- Teuku Uleë Lhuë
- Meura’sa
- Teuku Nanta Seutia
- Panglima Meuseugit Raya
- Imeum of Lueng Bata
- Achehnese War
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.