Matang Koeli

Matang Koeli is a subject named in General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943) by M. H. du Croo, in connection with the history of Atjeh and the governorship of H. N. A. Swart.

Account in du Croo’s Generaal Swart (1943)

From Lho’ Seumawè

Van Heutsz noted in his letter of July 1908 that in the Lho’ Seumawè country, where Swart had formerly travelled alone even from Lho’ Soekon through Matang Koeli to Paja Bakong, it was now unsafe even with military escort. In the resistance of 1908–1912 Lho’ Seumawè nevertheless remained the most favourable district; the administration there had for a considerable time been in the hands of a controleur, though the garrison of the bivouac Boeloh Blang Ara under Schouten repeatedly had its hands full. By 1910 the Koloniaal Verslag could report that the European administrators could visit a great part of their ressorten without military escort — “in Lho’ Seumawè the whole sub-division.”

From Letter of the Acehnese Chiefs to General Swart (26 September 1933)

1. T. Maharadja Mangkoeboemi, zelfbestuurder of the landschap Lho’ Seumawè
2. T. Bentara Isitia Moeda of Peureudan Gloempang Doea
3. T. Keudjroeën Ali of Sawang
4. T. Banta Lotan of Nisam
5. T. Tjhi’ Moehammad Thajèb of Peureulak
6. T. Tjhi’ Machmoed of Meureudoe
7. T. Ma E of Triëng Gadèng
8. T. Tjhi’ Moehammad of Samalanga
9. T. Moehammad Basjah, acting
10. T. Radja Ma’ Ali of Blang Mangat
11. T. Radja Meukoeta of Matang Koeli
12. T. Abdul Latif of Geudong
13. T. Imeum Balè of Bloeë
14. T. Machmoed of Tjoenda
15. T. Radèn of Bajoe
16. T. Aboe Sama of Koero
17. T. Tjoet Lizamsjah, son of T. Maharadja Mangkoeboemi of Lho’ Seumawè
18. T. Radja Ma’ Ali of Boeloh Blang Ara
19. T. Sjahkoebat of Pantòn Laboe
20. T. Moehammad Nafiah of Blang Gloempang
21. T. Radja Nago of Boeah
22. T. Bintang of Boeloh Gampong Teungoh
23. T. Panglima Prang Latèh of Boeloh Raja Mantjang
24. T. Moehammad Ibrahim of Moeliëng
25. T. Ali Basjah of Pirak
26. T. Moehammad Hadji bin T. Wahi of Matang Panjang
27. T. Bèn Ara of Boengkok
28. T. Djohan of Peudada
29. T. Panglima Prang Lhò’, sjahbandar of Matang Koeli
30. T. Hadji Moehammad Sjah of Lho’ Soekon
31. Nater Sahib, head of the Voor-Indiërs at Lho’ Seumawè
32. T. Tjhi’ Moehammad Djohan Alamsjah, …

See Also

• Lho’ Seumawè
• Letter of the Acehnese Chiefs to General Swart (26 September 1933)
• H. N. A. Swart
• General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943)
• Atjeh

Source

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), passim.