Bintara Peunang — printed Bintare Penang in the source — was the district whose head was, according to H. van Kol speaking in the Tweede Kamer on 17 November 1897, arrested by the Dutch “op trouwelooze wijze” — in a faithless manner.
The allegation
Van Kol named the case as the second in a short series of treacherous arrests of Acehnese chiefs: “Op verraderlijke wijze nam men den radja van Samalangan gevangen, dien men geweren beloofde: het hoofd van Bintare Penang werd eveneens op trouwelooze wijze gearresteerd, en met Toekoe Njak Amat heeft men dat, naar allen schijn, nog in de vorige maand bij Kroeng raja herhaald.” — In a treacherous manner the radja of Samalangan was taken prisoner, to whom rifles had been promised: the head of Bintara Peunang was likewise arrested in a faithless manner, and with Toekoe Njak Amat the same was, to all appearance, repeated last month near Kroeng Raja.
The three cases formed part of his catalogue of Dutch breaches of the lois et coutumes de la guerre, alongside the shooting of Njahim, the taking of the daughter of Wakil Joesoef as a hostage, the killing of Joed Mohmed Lamtengah and the exposure of convicts to hostile fire.
The source gives neither the personal name of the head concerned, nor the date, nor the circumstances of the arrest, nor his subsequent fate; nor does it locate the district more precisely. The Minister of Colonies Cremer did not answer the allegation specifically.
See Also
- Atrocities in the Aceh War as alleged in the Tweede Kamer (1897)
- Radja van Samalangan
- Toekoe Njak Amat
- Njahim
- H. van Kol
- Lois et coutumes de la guerre
- 1897
Source
Atjeh in de Tweede Kamer: Debatten bij de behandeling der begrooting van Nederlandsch-Indië voor 1898, uitgave van de Sociaaldemokratische Arbeiderspartij in Nederland (Amsterdam: J. A. Fortuijn, 1897). Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Br P95-178, p. 64.
Acknowledgement of sources. The material in this article derives from Atjeh in de Tweede Kamer: Debatten bij de behandeling der begrooting van Nederlandsch-Indië voor 1898 (Amsterdam: J. A. Fortuijn, 1897). Dutch passages are quoted in the original with an English rendering.