Boven Wòjla was the upper Wòjla district near Meulaboh, pacified under Scheurleer in 1909 and the scene in April 1918 of the Teungkoe Moet affair.
In 1909 the pacification of “the troublesome Boven Wòjla” under Scheurleer, operating from the bivouac Tanòh Mirah, produced the submission of two hundred resistance men, who were helped with rice and seed-padi. In April 1918 the killing of Teungkoe Moet during arrest and the klewang attack of 25 April on the bivouac of the commander of Koeala Bhèë prompted a report that the whole of the Boven Wòjla was in revolt; H. J. Schmidt marched with six brigades and found instead a wholly peaceable population offering coconuts and sugar cane. The loyal district head was Dato Sarong, whose two sons had been much attached to Teungkoe Moet.
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Generaal Swart, Pacificator van Atjeh (“General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh”), by M. H. du Croo, Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with the collaboration of H. J. Schmidt, Titular Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with a foreword by His Excellency Lieutenant-General K.N.I.L. (retired) G. K. Dijkstra (Maastricht: N.V. Leiter-Nypels, 1943), Chapter XI, XII.