Peusangan (region) (region/landschap) is a location in or related to Aceh described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu. Region whose inhabitants are stereotyped for gezwollenheid (arrogance) and listen (cunning); ‘the people of Peusangan have 12 ways to deceive people’.
Type
region/landschap
Description
Region whose inhabitants are stereotyped for gezwollenheid (arrogance) and listen (cunning); ‘the people of Peusangan have 12 ways to deceive people’.
Significance
Peusangan (region) is recorded by Jongejan as part of the geography and historical landscape of Aceh.
See Also
Source
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 76, 105, 106.