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Account from Oom Ambon van het K.N.I.L. (1954) — 1894

1894 was the year in which Dominee Thenu came to Aceh as the Inlands Godsdienstleraar attached to the garrison of Koeta-Radja, at the age of twenty-six. He would hold the post for forty full years, until his retirement in 1934. “He took it up in 1894, when he had just turned twenty-six. He was to hold it for forty full years.” The mood of the troops in Aceh in 1894 was somber; Thenu “voelde aan dat de troep afleiding nodig had en bracht de mensen het soldatenlied” — and in doing so composed the opening couplets of the Marechausseelied. The year 1894 also saw the Dutch Lombok expedition ([[1894)|Lombok expedition]] against the Rija of Lombok. It is the book’s marker of the beginning of the Thenu era in Aceh.

Source: Oom Ambon van het K.N.I.L., by G. W. T. Dames, Maj. Inf. K.N.I.L. b.d. (‘s-Gravenhage: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1954), chapter “Leve het Zesde Bataljon!” and chapter “Dominee Thenu.”

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Account from Oom Ambon van het K.N.I.L. (1954) — 1894

1894 was the year in which Dominee Thenu came to Aceh as the Inlands Godsdienstleraar attached to the garrison of Koeta-Radja, at the age of twenty-six. He would hold the post for forty full years, until his retirement in 1934. “He took it up in 1894, when he had just turned twenty-six. He was to hold it for forty full years.” The mood of the troops in Aceh in 1894 was somber; Thenu “voelde aan dat de troep afleiding nodig had en bracht de mensen het soldatenlied” — and in doing so composed the opening couplets of the Marechausseelied. The year 1894 also saw the Dutch Lombok expedition ([[1894)|Lombok expedition]] against the Rija of Lombok. It is the book’s marker of the beginning of the Thenu era in Aceh.

Source: Oom Ambon van het K.N.I.L., by G. W. T. Dames, Maj. Inf. K.N.I.L. b.d. (‘s-Gravenhage: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1954), chapter “Leve het Zesde Bataljon!” and chapter “Dominee Thenu.”

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Account from Verkenningen in Atjeh (1923)

1894 was the year of publication of Dr. Julius Jacobs’s Het familie- en kampongleven op Groot-AtjehFamily and Kampong Life in Groot-Atjeh — at Batavia by the Landsdrukkerij. The book is one of the principal pre-war sources for the social institutions of Groot-Atjeh and the principal medical-ethnographic source for the condition of lepers in pre-pacification Atjeh. Dr. Julius Jacobs records that in 1893 — the year before publication — ‘geen peper van beteekenis werd geoogst’ — no pepper of consequence was harvested.

Account in du Croo’s Generaal Swart (1943)

In 1894 the abuses in Lombok made intervention unavoidable and the minister of Colonies at last acknowledged: “our sovereignty over a native state lays upon us, with regard to what happens there, a responsibility that we cannot shake off” — the first breach in the policy of non-intervention. On 27 October 1894 H. N. A. Swart was transferred to the Subsistentenkader at Semarang.

Account in Hooijer’s De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh (1897)

1894 was the year in which the Dutch outpost system in Groot-Atjeh reached its widest extent, with the establishment of Biloel and Lam Koenjit, the storm of Senelop, and the evacuation of Kroeng Kali.

Chronology in Hooijer’s account

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De Atjehers, by C. Snouck Hurgronje, vol. II (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1894).

De Atjehers, by C. Snouck Hurgronje, vol. II (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1894).

A List of the Best Books Relating to Dutch East India, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague (1902).

Verkenningen in Atjeh, by Dr. R. Broersma (De Locomotief, October 1923); Atjeh Patchouli-Olie, by Ir. W. Spoon (1932), where applicable.

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 verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh, door G. B. Hooijer, Gep. Luit.-Kolonel O. I. Leger, met 24 platen (Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn; Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1897). Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Centrale Boekerij, Amsterdam. OCR-filename: 20260719_140140_DLP-134-De_verlaten_posten_in_Groot_Atjeh_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt, pp. 10, 12, 14, 32, 53.

Acknowledgement of sources. This article is a single consolidated account combining the material previously held in this entry with the account given in De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh (1897) by G. B. Hooijer. Dutch terminology has been rendered in English, the original Dutch being retained only in direct quotations and in bibliographic citations.