Teungku Hadji Hasan of Krueng Kalé was a venerable Ulama, nearly seventy years old at the time of the events described by Henri J. H. Alers, resident at Krueng Kalé in Tungkob and possessed, in Alers’s words, of “a great reputation as a religious teacher.” He led an internal opposition within the Poesa movement against the way the confiscated properties of the defeated oelèëbalang class were being distributed after the social revolution of 1945–1946.
Opposition to the appropriation of Uleëbalang property
Alers records that not only the remaining oelèëbalangs but also many within the Poesa itself objected to the fact that numerous Ulama had simply appropriated the property of murdered or dispossessed oelèëbalangs for themselves and were using it to build up their own position in trade and the economy. Such acts, the opposition argued, were unlawful acts of plunder — “haram” under Islamic law. This opposition, Alers writes, was led by “the venerable, nearly seventy-year-old Ulama of Krueng Kalé in Tungkob, named Teungku Hadji Hasan,” together with Teungku Hasbullah Indrapura. On their advice, the central republican government supported the creation of the Madjelis Penimbang (“House of Consideration”), the body to which all irregularly acquired properties were meant to be surrendered for redistribution.
See Also
- Teungku Hasbullah Indrapura
- Madjelis Penimbang
- Poesa
- Krueng Kalé
- XIII Mukims Tungkob
- Ulama–Uleëbalang social revolution in Atjeh (1945–1946)
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. 92.
Teungku Hadji Hasan of Krueng Kalé was a venerable Ulama, nearly seventy years old at the time of the events described by Henri J. H. Alers, resident at Krueng Kalé in Tungkob and possessed, in Alers’s words, of “a great reputation as a religious teacher.” He led an internal opposition within the Poesa movement against the way the confiscated properties of the defeated oelèëbalang class were being distributed after the social revolution of 1945–1946.
Opposition to the appropriation of Uleëbalang property
Alers records that not only the remaining oelèëbalangs but also many within the Poesa itself objected to the fact that numerous Ulama had simply appropriated the property of murdered or dispossessed oelèëbalangs for themselves and were using it to build up their own position in trade and the economy. Such acts, the opposition argued, were unlawful acts of plunder — “haram” under Islamic law. This opposition, Alers writes, was led by “the venerable, nearly seventy-year-old Ulama of Krueng Kalé in Tungkob, named Teungku Hadji Hasan,” together with Teungku Hasbullah Indrapura. On their advice, the central republican government supported the creation of the Madjelis Penimbang (“House of Consideration”), the body to which all irregularly acquired properties were meant to be surrendered for redistribution.
See Also
- Teungku Hasbullah Indrapura
- Madjelis Penimbang
- Poesa
- Krueng Kalé
- XIII Mukims Tungkob
- Ulama–Uleëbalang social revolution in Atjeh (1945–1946)
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. 92.