Teuku Waki Chi’ Gampong Baroh was the hereditary chief of the V Mukims, a chiefdom within the XXII Mukims of Great Acheh. He is named in The Achehnese Vol. I as one of the two principal uleebalangs of the XXII Mukims, alongside Teuku Muda Ba’et of the VII Mukims, and as one of the traditional “twelve uleebalangs, who appoint and dethrone princes” of the sultanate.
His title requires a brief gloss. Waki is the highland Achehnese equivalent of the lowland keuchi’ — the father of the community, the hereditary head of the gampong — and is the form used in the dialects of the XXII Mukims and the VII Mukims Bueng, which have so much in common with the Tunong (highland) speech. Chi’ is the respectful Achehnese title of address applied to venerable persons, equivalent to the Malay Tuan. The compound Waki Chi’ thus denotes the senior or venerable waki of the locality, with Gampong Baroh (“the lower village”) specifying the place of his original jurisdiction.
Snouck Hurgronje’s account of the office of waki notes that it devolves by inheritance, like all Achehnese offices, and that, in the highlands, the waki and his subordinate keucin (or geuchi, as it is there pronounced) exercise within the gampong a paternal authority analogous to that of the lowland keuchi’. In the person of Teuku Waki Chi’ Gampong Baroh we have the unusual case of a waki who had risen from the headship of a single village to the territorial uleebalangship of an entire mukim-cluster; the survival of his original style in the title of the chiefdom itself is an index of the personal ascent by which the territorial jurisdiction had been built up.
In the traditional list of the twelve uleebalangs, the chief of the V Mukims appears as the second of the two representatives allotted to the XXII Mukims (the first being the chief of the VII Mukims Ba’et). Snouck warns, however, that this list — though long received as a definitive statement of the Achehnese constitution — at most represents the conditions that existed during a short period. In reality the whole twelve had not in the long run a voice in the affairs of the capital, while some of them had absolutely no share therein. On the other hand, there were uleebalangs in the sultan’s territory and the so-called wakeueh-districts — such as Teuku Kali, Panglima Meuseugit Raya, and the Imeum of Lueng Bata — who had much more weight in the scale than many of the members of the board of twelve.
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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 Waki Chi’ Gampong Baroh was the hereditary chief of the V Mukims, a chiefdom within the XXII Mukims of Great Acheh. He is named in The Achehnese Vol. I as one of the two principal uleebalangs of the XXII Mukims, alongside Teuku Muda Ba’et of the VII Mukims, and as one of the traditional “twelve uleebalangs, who appoint and dethrone princes” of the sultanate.
His title requires a brief gloss. Waki is the highland Achehnese equivalent of the lowland keuchi’ — the father of the community, the hereditary head of the gampong — and is the form used in the dialects of the XXII Mukims and the VII Mukims Bueng, which have so much in common with the Tunong (highland) speech. Chi’ is the respectful Achehnese title of address applied to venerable persons, equivalent to the Malay Tuan. The compound Waki Chi’ thus denotes the senior or venerable waki of the locality, with Gampong Baroh (“the lower village”) specifying the place of his original jurisdiction.
Snouck Hurgronje’s account of the office of waki notes that it devolves by inheritance, like all Achehnese offices, and that, in the highlands, the waki and his subordinate keucin (or geuchi, as it is there pronounced) exercise within the gampong a paternal authority analogous to that of the lowland keuchi’. In the person of Teuku Waki Chi’ Gampong Baroh we have the unusual case of a waki who had risen from the headship of a single village to the territorial uleebalangship of an entire mukim-cluster; the survival of his original style in the title of the chiefdom itself is an index of the personal ascent by which the territorial jurisdiction had been built up.
In the traditional list of the twelve uleebalangs, the chief of the V Mukims appears as the second of the two representatives allotted to the XXII Mukims (the first being the chief of the VII Mukims Ba’et). Snouck warns, however, that this list — though long received as a definitive statement of the Achehnese constitution — at most represents the conditions that existed during a short period. In reality the whole twelve had not in the long run a voice in the affairs of the capital, while some of them had absolutely no share therein. On the other hand, there were uleebalangs in the sultan’s territory and the so-called wakeueh-districts — such as Teuku Kali, Panglima Meuseugit Raya, and the Imeum of Lueng Bata — who had much more weight in the scale than many of the members of the board of twelve.
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.