Author: KAULBACH, V. & J.J.CH. VAN WAARDENBURG,
Title: Beroering in Blang-Mè.Eerste druk. [first edn.].
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Moesson, 1984. Orig. thin limp coloured glossy wrappers, title in bold black type and an illustration on front side, sketch-map of the region on lower outer wrapper. 239pp. Ills. on 2 plates, after orig. photographs, full-p. sketch-map, glossary indonesian-dutch at very end. Novel, based upon historical facts, describing daily home- and office life of dutch colonial civil servants in pre-war Aceh, especially in the district of Blang Mè; incl. i.a. notes on their tours of duty, politics and local economic affairs, development of the local acehnese population, health care, incl. recollections of local acehnese of the past, during the Aceh-wars and the aftermath of Pax Neerlandica. Co-author served as a civil servant, a controleur, in the region 1932-1934, and as a resident of Rhiouw and dependencies, 1945-1949. Paperback edn. (as orig. publ.). A good to very good copy.

Keywords: literature novel history recollections blang mè civil service atjeh aceh prewar sumatra kota radja colonialism indonesia southeast asia buur