Figures, places, and events in Acehnese history associated with the year 1886.
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Figures, places, and events in Acehnese history associated with the year 1886.
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Account in du Croo’s Generaal Swart (1943)
On 16 October 1886 H. N. A. Swart re-engaged for a year; on 21 November 1886 he was appointed 2de luitenant in the Infantry of the Army in the Netherlands Indies by royal decree no. 18 of 24 November 1886.
Account from Verstege’s Een beroep op het Nederlandsche volk (1886)
The judgment of the very year in which this pamphlet appeared: on 26 January Kiesvereeniging Burgerpligt held its meeting at Amsterdam and published, with applause of a very great attendance, the lecture of Overste Verstege after the opening words of its president R. van de Werk and the replies of majoor Perelaer and of the old-director Bosscher. The former minister de Brauw rectified, by letter of 27 January 1886, the newspaper reading of his statement of 16 November 1882; while the minister Sprenger van Eijk had declared in his Memorie van Antwoord of 20 January 1886 that the gloomy predictions about the concentration plan had not been fulfilled — “an oracle-saying”, Verstege remarks, as the Minister could not yet know the costs. In the Militaire Spectator No. 1 of the same year majoor de Bas came forward once more in defence of general van Swieten’s conduct; the answer of the pamphlet is its whole argument, briefly: that the concentration was the illogical continuation of the annexation policy of 1874, the crowning of the statecraft applied since 11 March 1881, and a bastard system contradicted by the colonial history of all times and all peoples — and that only a commissoriale enquête (commission of inquiry) could lead the Netherlands out of the Atjeh labyrinth (see Een beroep op het Nederlandsche volk in zake het Atjeh-vraagstuk (Verstege, 1886)).
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Continuation of the Geconcentreerde Stelling
1886 saw the continuation of the geconcentreerde stelling (concentrated position) established in 1885. Colonel H. Demmeni, appointed Civiele en Militaire Gouverneur in September 1884, oversaw the operation of the concentration until his death in December 1886 in the Padang highlands. By July 1886, all construction and communication works (ceintuurtram, telephone connections, cleared schootveld of 1,000 metres before the line) had been completed. The security within the line had improved significantly, and losses were much reduced compared to pre-concentration years. However, the surrounding territories — the XXII Moekims, XXV Moekims, and XXVI Moekims — remained outside effective Dutch control, and the religious leadership under Tengkoe Sjech Saman di Tiro continued to organize resistance.
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.
De Geconcentreerde Stelling in Groot-Atjeh, ‘s-Gravenhage: De Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1885, pp. 41–45.
Een beroep op het Nederlandsche volk in zake het Atjeh-vraagstuk, door J. J. W. E. Verstege (Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy, 1886), pp. ix-107, 116-117. OCR: DLP-158.