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.

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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.