Toekoe Amat was an Atjehnese kampong head in the neighbourhood of Lampagar in the VI Moekims, counted by the Dutch in 1876 among the friendly (bevriende) chiefs. With Hadji Soliman, head of Lampagar, he paid the fateful visit to the Dutch camp on the evening of 2 May 1876, hours before the night attack on Lampagar began.
The visit of 2 May
In the conversation with Lieutenants Van de Roemer and Schnelle, described by H. F. Meijer in Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876 (1883), Toekoe Amat and Hadji Soliman told the officers that they suspected the enemy of evil designs on the VI Moekims and that they feared for their kampong if the post itself were to be attacked. They asked, and Captain Hoynck van Papendrecht granted, that the sentries on the north side should not fire too quickly at possible population patrols that night — the request whose consequence made the entry of the storming parties across the northern fence so easy at four in the morning.
Arrested with the other heads after the attack on the suspicion that they had known the plan, he was released when the wounded prisoner of 4 May shifted the blame to Panglima Moeda of Piëng — the inquiry concluding that the heads had sufficiently warned the officers, whose self-confidence had not listened.
See Also
- Night attack on Lampagar (2-3 May 1876)
- Hadji Soliman of Lampagar
- Lampagar
- Guerilla warfare in Groot-Atjeh
Source
Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876, door H. F. Meijer (Breda: P. B. Nieuwenhuijs, 1883), chapter VII, pp. 167–179.