Teuku Tjut Hassan was the second leader of the Muhammadiyah movement in Atjeh, succeeding Teuku Muhammed Hassan as chairman of a branch that, in Alers’s account, was unusually — and, for Muhammadiyah, uncharacteristically — political in character. Henri J. H. Alers’s Om een rode of groene Merdeka records that under his “cunning” (geslepen) chairmanship the Atjèhnese Muhammadiyah movement slowly gathered strength, even as the Ulama class, with only occasional exceptions, kept itself apart from it.
Succession to the Atjeh Muhammadiyah leadership
Elsewhere in Indonesia, Alers observes, the Muhammadiyah movement confined its activity to education and the intensification of Islamic religious life, and had little political influence. In Atjeh, “always fiercer,” the movement took on a pronounced political character from the start. Its first chairman was Teuku Muhammed Hassan; Teuku Tjut Hassan succeeded him, and under his leadership the movement continued to build strength through the final pre-war years, drawing its following chiefly from young men who had grown away from adat ties and from non-Atjèhnese, Java-born residents of the province — in contrast to the far broader and more traditionally rooted membership of the Poesa, founded in 1939.
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Om een rode of groene Merdeka: Tien jaren binnenlandse politiek Indonesië, 1943–1953, by Henri J. H. Alers (Eindhoven: Uitgeverij Vulkaan, 1956), Chapter II §9 “Atjeh,” p. 86.
Teuku Tjut Hassan was the second leader of the Muhammadiyah movement in Atjeh, succeeding Teuku Muhammed Hassan as chairman of a branch that, in Alers’s account, was unusually — and, for Muhammadiyah, uncharacteristically — political in character. Henri J. H. Alers’s Om een rode of groene Merdeka records that under his “cunning” (geslepen) chairmanship the Atjèhnese Muhammadiyah movement slowly gathered strength, even as the Ulama class, with only occasional exceptions, kept itself apart from it.
Succession to the Atjeh Muhammadiyah leadership
Elsewhere in Indonesia, Alers observes, the Muhammadiyah movement confined its activity to education and the intensification of Islamic religious life, and had little political influence. In Atjeh, “always fiercer,” the movement took on a pronounced political character from the start. Its first chairman was Teuku Muhammed Hassan; Teuku Tjut Hassan succeeded him, and under his leadership the movement continued to build strength through the final pre-war years, drawing its following chiefly from young men who had grown away from adat ties and from non-Atjèhnese, Java-born residents of the province — in contrast to the far broader and more traditionally rooted membership of the Poesa, founded in 1939.
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Source
Om een rode of groene Merdeka: Tien jaren binnenlandse politiek Indonesië, 1943–1953, by Henri J. H. Alers (Eindhoven: Uitgeverij Vulkaan, 1956), Chapter II §9 “Atjeh,” p. 86.