Panté Tjeureumèn is a subject named in *General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943) by [[Maurice Henri du Croo|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 W. van Kregten
He was killed by a band of twelve men armed with rentjong and klewang from the landschappen Lam No, Panté Tjeureumèn, Djeunamprong and Oenga, who fled to the mountains with the soldiers’ weapons. The night quarters had been chosen and occupied “in the most utterly careless manner”, the weapons of both soldiers lying on the floor of two different unwalled rooms; in the morning, while the soldiers had left their weapons to drink coffee and the lieutenant was innocently winding his puttees, Si Ali and four others attacked him. The cause lay in the dismissal of Si Ali, at Van Kregten’s instigation, from his post as mandoer of a coconut garden, and in a personal grudge against the oelèëbalang of Lambeusdë. Du Croo added the note: “Van Kregten was a quiet, calm, well-balanced man.”
From Lam No
The band of twelve men, armed with rentjong and klewang and drawn from the landschappen Lam No, Panté Tjeureumèn, Djeunamprong and Oenga, fled to the mountains with the soldiers’ weapons and was pursued by several brigades. The plan to withdraw had already been formed when the extremely careless night quarters on the keudé at Lam No gave them “a fine chance to make a name and at the same time to provide themselves with weapons.” Tgk. Machmoed van Lam No, a former teungkoe-meunasah at odds with his oelèëbalang over his share of the zakat, was one of the four principal perpetrators.
From Resistance in Daja and Lhong (1914)
The maandverslag reported: “On 20 May the Civil Authority, First Lieutenant W. van Kregten, on tour in the Daja country (Swart’s former patrol district), was murdered at Lam No together with two soldiers by a band of twelve men armed with dagger and sabre and coming from the territories of Lam No, Panté Tjeureumèn, Djeunamprong and Oenga. The band, which fled to the mountains carrying off the weapons of the murdered soldiers, is being pursued by several brigades.”
See Also
- W. van Kregten
- Lam No
- Resistance in Daja and Lhong (1914)
- 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.