Peukan Sòt was the moekim (district) near Sigli in Pidie, within the territory of uléëbalang Teukoe Béntara Pineung, that together with Peukan Baroe formed the stronghold of Habib Oesén and his hostile fortifications (bentengs). The area was the site of the conquest of Peukan Baroe-Peukan Sòt during the Sigli expedition of August 1897.
Pokan Soth was one of the two moekims of the Pedir country from which, according to the Minister of Colonies J. T. Cremer, the Segli expedition of August 1897 was undertaken to expel the hostile bands, the other being Pakan Baroe.
In the debate of 1897
Cremer explained to the Tweede Kamer on 16 November 1897 that the expedition had taken place “niet om Segli zelf te nemen, maar wel om de vijandelijke benden uit de moekims Pakan Baroe en Pokan Soth te verjagen.” — not to take Segli itself, but to drive the hostile bands out of the moekims Pakan Baroe and Pokan Soth. The princes on that coast were not hostile to the Dutch but were not strong enough to drive out the Delama-bands that had streamed together in the Tanawaqt or in the VII Moekims.
After the expulsion the chief of the district took the land under his management, and it was unnecessary to garrison the place; daily supervision over the cleared district was maintained from the fixed post of Segli, to which the population was gradually returning. Cremer added: “Zoo is het ook met Pedir.” — So it is also with Pedir.
See Also
- Peukan Baroe
- Sigli
- Habib Oesén
- Sigli expedition (August 1897)
- Pidië
- Joannes Benedictus van Heutsz
- Pakan Baroe
- Segli
- Pedir
- Delama-benden
- Tanawaqt
- J. T. Cremer
- 1897
Sources
H. T. Damsté, “Drie Atjeh-Mannen,” Kolonial Tijdschrift, No. 4, 26e Jaargang (1937), pp. 364–366; Kolonial Verslag 1897, Hoofdstuk C53, p. 11.
Atjeh in de Tweede Kamer: Debatten bij de behandeling der begrooting van Nederlandsch-Indië voor 1898, uitgave van de Sociaaldemokratische Arbeiderspartij in Nederland (Amsterdam: J. A. Fortuijn, 1897). Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Br P95-178, p. 55.
Acknowledgement of sources. This article combines material from the publications cited above; the material newly added derives from Atjeh in de Tweede Kamer (Amsterdam: J. A. Fortuijn, 1897) and Een strijd in Atjeh (Rotterdam: N.V. Drukkerij Korteweg for the Vereeniging „SIMAVI”, 1934). Dutch passages are quoted in the original with an English rendering.