Lo-ong was a kampong and Dutch fortified post in the XXV Moekims of Groot-Atjeh, one of the works of the second (southern) line protecting the capital Kota Radja on the east in 1875–1877.
The post and its purpose
The Dutch post of Lo-ong, planted on the site of the earlier small works Lohong Northeast, Southeast and South — which were demolished as the fortification was built — stood in the second line of six works (with Djempit, Ketapan Doewa, Mibouw Zuid, Mibouw Oost and Longbatah-Mesigit) whose task was to hold back, by continuous patrolling, the small armed bands roaming the whole occupied ground by day and by night. Its garrison’s patrols were charged to search the prickly selvedges of kampong and bush around it for the hiding corners the enemy used, and to take him, dead or alive, with the destruction of his refuges.
Communications
Lo-ong was joined to Longbatah Zuid by a footpath built through the marshy sawah directly after the fortification was begun, and to Mibouw Oost by another footpath; the guns of the demolished works reached it by way of Mibouw Oost. For the rest, in March 1876 it was still completely isolated: from the looming country of the XXII Moekims to the south and east it had to be walked over fields of mud; and the long-talked-of road from Ketapan Doewa through Mibouw and Lo-ong to Longbatah did not exist until late 1876.
See Also
Source
Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876, door H. F. Meijer (Breda: P. B. Nieuwenhuijs, 1883), chapters I (p. 24), IV (p. 66) and V (pp. 91, 94).