Lamtenguh was an Atjehnese kampong of the XXVI Moekims of Groot-Atjeh — the kampong of Toekoe Tjoet Machmoed van Lamtenguh, the oeloebalang who was the half-brother of Toekoe Moeda Baid of the VII Moekims. The kampong is named in the Atjeh-Album of 1896 in the chapter on the 1896 crisis as the territory of the oeloebalang to whom was entrusted the safety of the terrain between the Dutch temporary post at Anagaloeng and the blokhuis of Blang Tjoet.
The 1896 context
The Atjeh-Album of 1896 records that, in the early months of 1896, as the Dutch temporary outposts at Anagaloeng, Senelop, Biloel and Lamkoenjit were being besieged by the forces of Toekoe Oemar following his defection from the Dutch alliance, the security of the lines of communication between the outposts became a question of first importance. The Dutch had constructed a chain of blokhuizen (blockhouses) between Anagaloeng and the geconcentreerde linie, and the safety of the terrain between these blokhuizen was entrusted to allied Atjehnese oeloebalangs rather than to Dutch garrisons. Toekoe Tjoet Machmoed, as oeloebalang of Lamtenguh, was given responsibility for the sector between Anagaloeng and the blokhuis of Blang Tjoet.
Significance
Lamtenguh’s significance in the documentary record of the Atjeh-oorlog is as the kampong of Toekoe Tjoet Machmoed — the oeloebalang whose appointment to the Anagaloeng sector was a consequence of the unreliability of his half-brother Toekoe Moeda Baid. The kampong’s appearance in the Atjeh-Album of 1896 is brief, but it identifies the kinship network of the oeloebalang class of the XXVI Moekims and the VII Moekims that the Dutch sought to manage in the late concentratie period.
See Also
- XXVI Moekims
- Groot-Atjeh
- Toekoe Tjoet Machmoed van Lamtenguh
- Toekoe Moeda Baid
- VII Moekims
- Anagaloeng
- Blang Tjoet
- Toekoe Oemar’s defection (1896)
- Aceh War
- 1896
- Atjeh-Album (Eigen Haard, 1896)
Source
Atjeh-Album van Eigen Haard, uitgave van de N.V. Het Tijdschrift “Eigen Haard”, Amsterdam, 1896, p. 6 (De Poeassa — Atjehers en Kafirs — Anagaloeng).