Tibang was a Dutch fortified post in the XXVI Moekims of Groot-Atjeh, one of the small square earth redoubts planted in the marshy ground along the left bank of the Kroeëng Titi Pandjang, which guarded the eastern approaches of the establishment at Penajoeng and observed the hostile ground east of that river in the years 1874–1876.
The post
Tibang stood — with Lamara Northeast and Southeast, Langkroek and Langkroek East and Moesapi — among the small sealed works of the marsh line. The terrain there, divided by a great number of ridges of half to one and a half feet wide into very irregular portions — some used as salt pans, others as fish ponds — flooded at the least high water; the drinking water had to be fetched by the garrison itself from Tibang, which created a continuous armed traffic along the line in daytime. From this post the whole stretch of the Titi Pandjang and the hostile kampongs east of it were kept in observation.
1876
In July 1876 the garrison of Tibang discovered one morning that the enemy had built a staked fence across the whole width of the Kroeëng Titi Pandjang close to the work, sheltering Atjehnese fishers and hostile traffic persons from view. On 26 July the post commander sent a patrol over the river at low water; the enemy let the workmen remove the stakes undisturbed, the patrol crossing onwards towards the Kroeëng Tjoet and back without seeing one Atjeher, burning some empty houses, taking a few weapons and destroying fishing gear and boats. That underscored what Meijer records of this post as of the others of the line: continually fired on in the summer of that year, at no cost in blood.
See Also
Source
Atjeh van 26 December 1875 tot 4 September 1876, door H. F. Meijer (Breda: P. B. Nieuwenhuijs, 1883), chapters I (pp. 47–48), IV (p. 80) and VII (pp. 233–235).