The year in which Snouck Hurgronje sent to Leiden the collection of manuscripts from which the Leiden Cod. Or. 5664 — the manuscript of the *Tamhīd* of Abū Shakūr as-Sālimī — derives. This manuscript, almost entirely of Banten provenance, was shown by Voorhoeve to preserve a text practically identical to that of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī’s own exemplar of the Tamhīd, including the shared errors (such as Kubtiyya for al-Muʿattila) that allowed Voorhoeve to identify the Tamhīd as the principal source of the *Tibjān*. The year 1906 is also the year of publication of the English translation of The Achehnese by Snouck Hurgronje.
Account from De Buitenbezittingen (1917) — 1906
1906 was the year in which the second tramway of the Atjeh Dependencies — the line under construction from 1899 onward — was “successively completed” from Sigli to the harbour of Langsa. According to the Encyclopaedisch Bureau, “from 1899 onward, [the Gouvernement] was already proceeding to the construction of a second tramway, in the Onderhoorigheden, where between 1899–1906 the line was successively completed from Sigli to the harbour of Langsa, to which between 1910–1912 the Langsa–Koeala Simpang section was added, while already in 1899 from Sigli a lijntje was built westward over Padang Tidji to Keude Breue.”
The 1906 completion of the Sigli–Langsa line marked a major logistical milestone in the pacification of Atjeh. The line opened a direct railway connection from Sigli — the central junction of the second tramway — to the eastern harbour of Langsa in the Dependencies. The 1904–1908 construction of the berglijntje was still in progress, so the 1906 completion of the Sigli–Langsa line preceded the integration of the Dependencies network with the Great Atjeh network by two years.
The Encyclopaedisch Bureau’s statistical tables for the Atjeh-tramway show that the line’s route length grew from 326 K.M. in 1905 to 401 K.M. in 1906 — a 75 K.M. jump that reflects the completion of the Sigli–Langsa line. The aanlegkapitaal likewise rose from f 9,873,000 in 1905 to f 12,694,000 in 1906.
Account from Oost-Indisch Journael (1947) — 1906
1906 was the year in which the colonial army, after the failed trials with foreign elephants in 1880–1881, tried to train indigenous elephants and put them in service for the military transports in the Region — the beginning of the elephant-transport of Aceh. After the narrator believes that military trials with foreign elephants as pack-animals had failed in 1880–1881, in 1906 the colonial army tried to train indigenous elephants and put them in service for the military transports in the Region. This trial turned out favourably. The 1906 trial — the trial with indigenous elephants — is the marker of the beginning of the elephant-transport: the year that the colonial army, after the 1880–1881 failure with foreign elephants, tried the indigenous elephants and the trial turned out favourably. By 1913 the transport-elephants would be transported to Lam-toeulo to serve the transport to Tangsé and the still more southerly post Geumpang.
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1906 is, in the Encyclopaedisch Bureau’s account, the year of the completion of the Sigli–Langsa line — the second tramway of the Atjeh Dependencies in its original form. The completion marks a major logistical milestone in the pacification of Atjeh, opening a direct railway connection from the central junction at Sigli to the eastern harbour of Langsa.
Account from Atjeh by H.C. Zentgraff (1938)
Zentgraff records 1906 as the year Schmidt served as luitenant at the bivak Djeuram in the ultra-roeige Seunagan on the Westkust, where hinderlagen and klewangaanvallen waren aan de orde van den dag. His principal adversary was Tengkoe Poetih, who had many fanatieke aanhangers and used a tokotje (Chinese shop) as a cover for intelligence-gathering. Parallel to Schmidt’s campaign against Tengkoe Poetih, Pang Sihim (Si Brahim) carried out gruwelijke wreedheden against his own landgenooten, earning a reputation so terrible that his name could not be spoken aloud.
Atjeh, door H.C. Zentgraff. Gedrukt bij Drukkerij “De Unie”, 1938, Batavia.
Account in du Croo’s Generaal Swart (1943)
In 1906 the pacification of the South and East Division of Borneo was completed; on 9 July 1906 H. N. A. Swart was temporarily charged, with effect from 3 September 1906, with the civil and military authority in the Gouvernement Celebes en Onderhoorigheden and the military command of Menado and Timor.
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Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955.
The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.
- Oost-Indisch Journael: Palaver om de tafel met het gat, by Merac, Toekan-Serie no. 2, ed. G. L. Tichelman (Haarlem: De Gulden Pers, 1947), chapter Atjeh’s Transport-Olifanten. De Buitenbezittingen 1904 tot 1914, Deel I, bewerkt door het Encyclopaedisch Bureau, Mededeelingen van het Bureau voor de Bestuurszaken der Buitenbezittingen, Aflevering X (Weltevreden: Landsdrukkerij, 1917), p. 69 (section “De Atjeh-tram”), Bijlage X (Atjeh-tram exploitation figures).
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.