A. Pentuwa Gade is an iron-ore locality on the West coast of Atjeh, 68 km SE of Meulaboh, recorded by Jansen, Lindberg and Wolvekamp in 1922 and reproduced in Van Bemmelen’s *Geology of Indonesia* (1949). The A. Pentuwa Gade locality is No. 8 in Van Bemmelen’s Fig. 41 key, and is the south-easternmost of the West-Atjeh iron-ore occurrences recorded by the 1922 survey.
The 1922 Jansen-Lindberg-Wolvekamp observation
The 1922 report of Jansen, Lindberg and Wolvekamp, as reproduced by Van Bemmelen, records simply:
“Locality: 68 km SE of Meulaboh. No particulars available.”
The absence of detailed geological description for the A. Pentuwa Gade locality — in contrast to the more substantial descriptions of the Kr. Geuenteuet, Gle Mon Ampeuet, Kr. Ligan (Babah Loh), Kr. Rigaih and Kwala Boe and Tjot Plaj localities — indicates that the Jansen-Lindberg-Wolvekamp survey did not have the time or the resources to conduct a detailed examination of every Atjeh iron-ore occurrence, and that the A. Pentuwa Gade locality was recorded only as a point on the map without further particulars. The locality’s inclusion in Van Bemmelen’s Fig. 41 key, however, establishes it as one of the eight canonical Atjeh iron-ore localities of the colonial geological literature.
Significance
A. Pentuwa Gade is significant for the encyclopedia of Acheh history because it is one of the eight canonical Atjeh iron-ore localities of the colonial geological literature, and the south-easternmost of the West-Atjeh iron-ore occurrences recorded by the 1922 Jansen-Lindberg-Wolvekamp survey. The locality’s inclusion in Van Bemmelen’s Fig. 41 key — despite the absence of detailed geological description — establishes it as part of the documented colonial-era iron-ore record of Atjeh, and its south-easterly position (68 km SE of Meulaboh, in contrast to the NW-of-Meulaboh positions of the other West-Atjeh iron-ore localities) marks it as the southern anchor of the West-Atjeh iron-ore zone.
See Also
- Acheh
- Alu Talu
- B. B. Lindberg
- H. Wolvekamp
- Iron ores in Atjeh
- Kr. Ligan (Babah Loh)
- Kr. Rigaih
- Kuto Buloh
- Kwala Boe Tjot Plaj
- Meulaboh
- P. J. J. Jansen
- Van Bemmelen’s The Geology of Indonesia (1949)
- 1922
Source
The Geology of Indonesia, by R. W. van Bemmelen, Vol. II: Economic Geology (The Hague: Government Printing Office; Martinus Nijhoff, 1949), p. 208 (key to Fig. 41, No. 8, with locality description).