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Aceh War

Aceh War

Artist's depiction of the Battle of Samalanga in 1878
Date1873–1913
Location
Result

Dutch victory

  • Imposition of Dutch rule over Aceh
Territorial
changes
Aceh is annexed into the Dutch East Indies
Belligerents

 Netherlands

Aceh Sultanate

Commanders and leaders

Major General J.H.R. Köhler 
General Jan van Swieten
Major General J.L.J.H. Pel 
Major General Karel van der Heijden (WIA)
Major General Henry Demmeni (DOW)
Major General Jan Jacob Karel de Moulin 
General J.B. van Heutsz (1898–1904)[1]
Lieutenant General J.C. van der Wijck (1904–05)[1]
Gotfried van Daalen (1905–08)[1]
H.N.A. Swart (1908–13)[1]

George Frederik Willem Borel

Sultan Mahmud Syah [3]
Sultan Alauddin Muhammad Da'ud Syah II (1874–1903)[4]
Tuanku Raja Keumala[1]
Tuanku Mahmud[1]
Teuku Panglima Polem Muda Perkasa[3]
Teuku Umar [5]

Cut Nyak Dhien[6]
Strength
3,000 troops (First Aceh Expedition)[3]
13,000 (Second Aceh Expedition)[3]
12,000 European KNIL troops (1903)[2]
23,000 Indonesian KNIL troops[2]
10,000–200,000 troops[7]
Casualties and losses
37,000 killed (including by cholera)[2] 60–70,000 killed (including by cholera)[2]
10,000 refugees[2]

The Aceh War (Indonesian: Perang Aceh), also known as the Dutch War or the Infidel War (1873–1913), was an armed military conflict between the Sultanate of Aceh and the Kingdom of the Netherlands which was triggered by discussions between representatives of Aceh and the United States in Singapore during early 1873.[8] The war was part of a series of conflicts in the late 19th century that consolidated Dutch rule over modern-day Indonesia.

The campaign drew controversy in the Netherlands as photographs and accounts of the death toll were reported. Isolated bloody insurgencies continued as late as 1914[1] and less violent forms of Acehnese resistance continued to persist until World War II and the Japanese occupation.

Background

For much of the 19th century, Aceh's independence had been guaranteed by the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 and its status as a protectorate of the Ottoman Empire since the 16th century.[9] During the 1820s, Aceh became a regional political and commercial power, supplying half of the world's pepper, which increased the revenues and influence of local feudal rajas.[10] Growing European and American demand for pepper led to a series of diplomatic skirmishes between the British, French and Americans. During the reign of Sultan Alauddin Ibrahim Mansur Syah (1838–1870), the Aceh Sultanate brought the regional rajas under its control and extended its domain over the east coast.[10] However, this southward trend clashed with the northwards expansion of Dutch colonialism in Sumatra.[10]

Following the 1869 opening of the Suez Canal and changing shipping routes, the British and Dutch signed the 1871 Anglo-Dutch Treaty of Sumatra which ended British territorial claims to Sumatra, allowing the Dutch a free hand within their sphere of influence in Maritime Southeast Asia while handing them the responsibility to check piracy.[3] In return, Britain gained control of the Dutch Gold Coast in Africa and equal commercial rights in Siak.[7] Dutch territorial ambitions in Aceh were fuelled by a desire to exploit its natural resources, especially black pepper and oil, and to eliminate an independent native state player. The Dutch also sought to ward off rival colonial powers that had ambitions in Southeast Asia, particularly the British and the French.[11]

Combat operations

Strategies

The Dutch tried several strategies over the course of the war; single rapid attacks in 1873 failed, which then led them to pursue a naval blockade, reconciliation efforts, concentration within a line of forts, and finally passive containment. This all had scant success. The operations costs 15 to 20 million guilders a year, which nearly bankrupted the colonial government.[12]

First Dutch offensive

In 1873, negotiations took place in Singapore between representatives of the Aceh Sultanate and the local American Consul over a potential bilateral treaty.[7] The Dutch saw this as a violation of a prior agreement with the British in 1871 and used this as an opportunity to annex Aceh militarily.[1] An expedition under Major General Johan Harmen Rudolf Köhler was sent out on 26 March 1873, which bombarded the capital Banda Aceh and was able to occupy most of the coastal areas by April.[7] It was the intention of the Dutch to attack and take the Sultan's palace, which would also lead to the occupation of the entire country. The Sultan requested and possibly received military aid from Italy and the United Kingdom in Singapore. In any case the Aceh army was rapidly modernised and enlarged with figures ranging from 10,000 to 100,000.[7] Underestimating the military abilities of the Acehnese, the Dutch made some tactical errors and sustained losses including the deaths of Köhler and 80 troops.[7] These defeats undermined Dutch morale and prestige.[3]

Forced to retreat, the Dutch imposed a naval blockade of Aceh. In an attempt to preserve Aceh's independence, Sultan Mahmud appealed to the other Western powers and Turkey for direct help but to little avail. While the American Consul was sympathetic, the American government remained neutral. Due to its weak position in the international political stage, the Ottoman Empire was impotent and the British refused to intervene due to their relations with the Dutch. Only the French agreed to respond to Mahmud's appeal.[4]

Second Dutch offensive

 
Dismantled Ottoman and Acehnese guns following the Dutch conquest of Aceh in 1874. Illustrated London News

In November 1873, a second expedition consisting of 13,000 troops led by General Jan van Swieten was dispatched to Aceh.[8] The invasion coincided with a cholera outbreak which killed thousands on both sides.[4] By January 1874, deteriorating conditions forced Sultan Mahmud Syah and his followers to abandon Banda Aceh and retreat to the interior. Meanwhile, Dutch forces occupied the capital and captured the symbolically important dalam (sultan's palace), leading the Dutch to believe that they had won. The Dutch occupiers then abolished the Acehnese Sultanate and declared Aceh to be annexed to the Dutch East Indies proper.[4]

Following Mahmud's death from cholera, the Acehnese proclaimed a young grandson of Alauddin Ibrahim Mansur Syah, named Tuanku Muhammad Daud, as Alauddin Muhammad Da'ud Syah II (r. 1874–1903) and continued their struggle in the hills and jungle territory for ten years, with heavy casualties on both sides.[4] Around 1880 the Dutch strategy changed, and rather than continuing the war, they now concentrated on defending areas they already controlled, which were mostly limited to the capital city (modern Banda Aceh),[3] and the harbour town of Ulee Lheue. Dutch naval blockades succeeded in forcing the uleebelang or secular chiefs to sign treaties that extended Dutch control along the coastal regions. However, the uleebelang then used their newly restored revenues to finance the Acehnese resistance forces.

The Dutch intervention in Aceh cost the lives of thousands of troops and was a severe drain on the colonial government's financial expenditure. On 13 October 1880 the colonial government declared the war was over and installed a civilian government, but continued spending heavily to maintain control over the areas it occupied. In an attempt to win the support of the local Acehnese, the Dutch rebuilt the Masjid Raya Baiturrahman or Great Mosque in Banda Aceh as a gesture of reconciliation.[3]

Holy war

War began again in 1883, when the British ship Nisero was stranded in Aceh, in an area where the Dutch had little influence. A local leader asked for ransom from both the Dutch and the British, and under British pressure the Dutch were forced to attempt to liberate the sailors. After a failed Dutch attempt to rescue the hostages, where the local leader Teuku Umar was asked for help but he refused, the Dutch together with the British invaded the territory. The Sultan gave up the hostages, and received a large amount of cash in exchange.[13]

The Dutch Minister of Warfare August Willem Philip Weitzel again declared open war on Aceh, and warfare continued with little success, as before. Facing a technologically superior foe, the Acehnese resorted to guerrilla warfare, particularly traps and ambushes. Dutch troops retaliated by wiping out entire villages and murdering both prisoners and civilians.[14] In 1884, the Dutch responded by withdrawing all their forces in Aceh into a fortified line around Banda Aceh.[3] The Dutch now also tried to enlist local leaders: the aforementioned Umar was bought with cash, opium, and weapons. Umar received the title panglima prang besar (Great war commander).

 
Capture of Fort Kuta Reh in Alasland on 14 June 1904, caused several hundred casualties to indigenous people, photo by H.M. Neeb

Umar instead called himself Teuku Djohan Pahlawan (Johan the Heroic). On 1 January 1894 Umar even received Dutch aid to build an army. However, two years later Umar attacked the Dutch with his new army, rather than aiding the Dutch in subjugating inner Aceh. This is recorded in Dutch history as "Het verraad van Teukoe Oemar" (The Treason of Teuku Umar). From the mid-1880s, the Acehnese military leadership was dominated by religious ulema, including Teungku Chik di Tiro (Muhamma Saman), who propagated the concept of a "holy war" through sermons and texts known as hikayat or poetic tales. Acehnese fighters viewed themselves as religious martyrs fighting "infidel invaders".[1] By this stage, the Aceh War was being used as a symbol of Muslim resistance to Western imperialism.[2]

In 1892 and 1893 Aceh remained independent, despite the Dutch efforts. Major J. B. van Heutsz, a colonial military leader, then wrote a series of articles on Aceh. He was supported by Dr. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje of the University of Leiden, then the leading Dutch expert on Islam. Hurgronje managed to get the confidence of many Aceh leaders and gathered valuable intelligence for the Dutch government on the activities of Indonesian Hajj pilgrims.[2] His works remained an official secret for many years. In Hurgronje's analysis of Acehnese society, he minimised the role of the Sultan and argued that attention should be paid to the hereditary chiefs and nobles, the Ulee Balang, who he felt could be trusted as local administrators. However, he argued, Aceh's religious leaders, the ulema, could not be trusted or persuaded to co-operate, and must be destroyed. As part of a policy of divide-and-conquer, Hurgronje urged the Dutch leadership to widen the existing gulf between the Acehnese nobility and the religious leaders.[2]

Hurgronje was a friend of the Arab Grand Mufti of Batavia, Habib Usman bin Yahya, who issued a fatwa to support the Dutch war against Aceh.

In 1894, the penghulu or judge Hasan Mustafa also helped bring a stop to the fighting by issuing a fatwa, telling the Muslims to submit to the Dutch colonial government.[15]

Pacification

 
A Dutch military patrol on break during the Aceh War, photo by H.M. Neeb

In 1898 Van Heutsz was proclaimed governor of Aceh, and with his lieutenant, later Dutch Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn, would finally conquer most of Aceh. They followed Hurgronje's suggestions, finding cooperative uleebelang that would support them in the countryside and isolating the resistance from their rural support base.[2] The Dutch formulated a new strategy of counter-insurgency warfare by deploying light-armed Marechaussee units and using scorched earth tactics.[1] Van Heutsz charged Colonel Gotfried Coenraad Ernst van Daalen with breaking remaining resistance.[16]

In 1903, the main secular Acehnese resistance leaders including Sultan Alauddin Muhammad Da'ud Syah II, Tuanku Raja Keumala, Mahmud and Muda Perkasa capitulated.[1] During the 1904 campaign, Colonel van Daalen destroyed several villages, killing at least 2,922 Acehnese, among which were 1,149 women and children during the 1904 campaign.[16] Dutch losses numbered 26, and Van Daalen was promoted. Episodes of marked Dutch military cruelty occurred during this period. Photographs of a June 1904 Dutch massacre in Kuta Reh village of the Alas people taken during the Dutch military expedition in Aceh's Gayo and Alas regions, for example, indicate that killings of large groups of civilians occurred on some occasions.[17] By the end of 1904 most of Aceh was under Dutch control, and had an indigenous government that cooperated with the colonial state. The Dutch consolidated their control over Aceh by practising a policy of religious tolerance as a means of dissuading the Acehnese from taking up an armed struggle.[1] According to Historian Adrian Vickers, during the entire Aceh war, 50,000 to 60,000 Acehnese died from violence and disease, approximately 2,000 European and allied indigenous soldiers were killed in combat, and more than 35,000 soldiers and labourers died from disease.[2] The destruction of entire communities also caused 10,000 Acehnese to flee to neighbouring Malaya.[2]

 
General van Heutz and staff in a photograph by Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis

In the Netherlands at the time, Van Heutsz was considered a hero, named the 'Pacifier of Aceh' and was promoted to become governor-general of the entire Dutch Indies in 1904. A still-existent monument to him was erected in Amsterdam, though his image and name were later removed, to protest his violent legacy. The Dutch establishment defended its actions in Aceh by citing a moral imperative to liberate the masses from the oppression and backward practices of independent native rulers that did not meet accepted international norms.[18] The Aceh War also encouraged Dutch annexation of other independent states in Bali, Moluccas, Borneo and Sulawesi between 1901 and 1910.[18]

Colonial influence in the remote highland areas of Aceh was never substantial, however, and limited guerrilla resistance led by religious ulema persisted until 1942.[1] Unable to dislodge the Dutch, many of the ulema gradually discontinued their resistance. The region of Gayo remained a centre of resistance as late as 1914.[19] One intellectual Sayyid Ahmad Khan advocated discontinuing the "jihad" against the Dutch.[1]

Suicide attacks

Muslim Acehnese from the Aceh Sultanate performed "holy war" known as Parang-sabil against invaders such as on the Americans in the attack on Joseph Peabody's ship Friendship, during the First Sumatran expedition and the Second Sumatran expedition,[20][21][22][23][24][25][excessive citations] and against the Dutch in the Dutch expedition on the west coast of Sumatra and most notably during the Aceh War, where they performed suicide attacks as part of "parang sabil". It was considered as part of personal jihad in the Islamic religion of the Acehnese. The Dutch called it Atjèh-moord,[26][27] (Acehmord, Aceh mord, Aceh-mord, Aceh Pungo). The Acehnese work of literature, the Hikayat Perang Sabil provided the background and reasoning for the "Aceh-mord" – Acehnese suicide attacks upon the Dutch.[28][29][30] The Indonesian translations of the Dutch terms are Aceh bodoh (Aceh pungo) or Aceh gila (Aceh mord).[31]

Atjèh-moord was also used against the Japanese by the Acehnese during the Japanese occupation of Aceh.[32] The Acehnese Ulama (Islamic clerics) fought against both the Dutch and the Japanese, revolting against the Dutch in February 1942 and against Japan in November 1942. The revolt was led by the All-Aceh Religious Scholars' Association (PUSA). The Japanese suffered 18 dead in the uprising while they slaughtered up to 100 or over 120 Acehnese.[33] The revolt happened in Bayu and was centred around Tjot Plieng village's religious school.[34][35][36][37] During the revolt, the Japanese troops armed with mortars and machine guns were charged by sword wielding Acehnese under Teungku Abduldjalil (Tengku Abdul Djalil) in Buloh Gampong Teungah and Tjot Plieng on 10 and 13 November.[38][39][40][41][42][43][excessive citations] In May 1945 the Acehnese rebelled again.[44]

The original Acehnese-language work Hikayat Prang Sabi (see also: id:Hikayat Prang Sabi) written with the Jawi script has been transliterated into the Latin alphabet and annotated by Ibrahim Alfian which was published in Jakarta.[45] Perang sabi was the Acehnese word for jihad, a holy war and Acehnese language literary works on perang sabi were distributed by Islamic clerics (ulama) such as Teungku di Tiro to help the resistance against the Dutch in the Aceh War.[46] The recompense awarded by the fighters in paradise (detailed in Arabic texts) and mentions of Dutch atrocities were expounded on in the Hikayat Perang Sabil which was communally read by small cabals of ulama and Acehnese who swore an oath before going to achieve the desired status of "martyr" by launching suicide attacks on the Dutch.[47] Perang sabil was the Malay equivalent to other terms like Jihad, Ghazawat for "Holy war".[48]

Fiction novels like Sayf Muhammad Isa's Sabil: Prahara di Bumi Rencong on the war by Aceh against the Dutch include references to Hikayat Perang Sabil.[49] Mualimbunsu Syam Muhammad wrote the work titled "Motives for Perang Sabil in Nusantara" (Motivasi perang sabil di Nusantara: kajian kitab Ramalan Joyoboyo, Dalailul-Khairat, dan Hikayat Perang Sabil) on Indonesia's history of Islamic holy war.[50] Children and women were inspired to engage in suicide attacks by the Hikayat Perang Sabil against the Dutch.[28] The hikayat is considered as an important part of 19th century Malay literature.[51] In Dutch-occupied Aceh, the hikayat was confiscated from Sabi's house during a police raid on 27 September 1917.[52][53][54]

Dutch soldiers were attacked with blades wielded by Acehnese fighters on their feet.[55]

Aftermath

 
Kraton of Aceh after Dutch occupation, 1874.

Following the Aceh War, local uleebelang (aristocracy) assisted the Dutch in maintaining control over Aceh through indirect rule.[56] Despite the end of open conflict, popular Acehnese resistance against Dutch rule continued until the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies in 1942. Throughout the early 20th century, Dutch citizens and personnel were targeted by sporadic suicide attacks by the Acehnese who were influenced by the Hikayat Perang Sabil and other proscribed texts.[57] This phenomenon was known as the Atjeh-moord or "Aceh murders" and forced the Dutch government to maintain substantial forces within the province.[19] During the early 20th century, Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell developed oil refineries to profit from the province's substantial oil reserves.[58]

Acehnese resentment was further stoked by a system of forced corvee labour where subjects were required to work on government roadwork projects for 24 days a year.[19] By the mid-1920s, Aceh had reverted to a state of full-scale guerrilla warfare. Following the Japanese invasion, the occupying Japanese forces were initially welcomed by Acehnese nationalists as liberators though differences led to protracted resistance by Islamic-inspired rebels, culminating in a rebellion at Bayu.[59]

The Acehnese ulama (Islamic clerics) fought against both the Dutch and the Japanese, revolting against the Dutch in February 1942 and against Japan in November 1942. The revolt was led by the Pan-Aceh Religious Scholars' Association (PUSA). The Japanese suffered 18 dead in the uprising while they slaughtered up to 100–120 Acehnese.[60][61] The revolt happened in Bayu and was centred around Tjot Plieng village's religious school.[35][36][37][62] During the revolt, the Japanese troops armed with mortars and machine guns were charged by sword wielding Acehnese under Teungku Abduldjalil (Tengku Abdul Djalil) in Buloh Gampong Teungah and Tjot Plieng on 10 and 13 November.[43][38][63][64][40][41][42][excessive citations] In May 1945 the Acehnese rebelled again.[65] During the Indonesian National Revolution following the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the aristocracy were targeted for retribution due to their collaboration with the Dutch and the region became a stronghold for Sukarno's Republicans.[56] Due to the entrenched anti-colonial sentiment, the Dutch bypassed Aceh during their police actions from 1947 to 1948.[59]

Following the Dutch transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia in August 1949, many Acehnese became dissatisfied with the policies of the Javanese-dominated central government in Jakarta and began agitating for autonomy.[66] Grievances included Aceh's incorporation into the predominantly Christian Batak province of North Sumatra, its poor financial and political rewards within the unitary Indonesian Republic and the failure to implement sharia law.[59][67] In 1953, Sukarno have stated that he opposed Aceh's plan to enact sharia law, stating that "Indonesia is a nation state with the ideology of Pancasila, not a theocratic country with a certain religious orientation."[68] As told by Sajoeti, who also accompanied Sukarno, the Acehnese people did not welcome Sukarno's visit and even suspected that he had a secularizing agenda. For instance, there were some posters which read: "We regret the President's speech in Amuntai"; We love the President, but we love the country more. We love the country but we love religion more. ISLAM IS SACRED"; "Loving the religion means loving the country. But it doesn't mean loving the country is loving the religion", and "Those who reject Islamic laws are not defenders of Islam."[69] These factors led to a short-lived rebellion by the Darul Islam movement under Daud Bereueh[59] which was suppressed by the Indonesian armed forces.[67][70] Despite this, many Acehnese and other Sumatrans resented key government and military positions being dominated by Javanese.[67] The resulting rebellion led by the Free Aceh Movement raged in the province until a peace treaty was signed between the Acehnese movement and the Indonesian government following the Great Aceh tsunami.

Dutch Kerkhoff Poucut Cemetery

Numerous Dutch casualties of the Aceh War are buried in the Kerkhof Peucut Cemetery (also called Peutjoet or Peutjut Cemetery), the Dutch military cemetery is located near the centre of Banda Aceh next to the Aceh Tsunami Museum. The Kerkhoff Poucut is recorded as the largest Dutch military cemetery outside of the Netherlands. There are around 2,200 graves of Dutch soldiers as well as recruits from Ambon, Manado and Java, as well as several Dutch generals.[71]

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Further reading

  • Aceh War 1873–1914
  • van Heutsz – "The Pacifier of Aceh" 1851–1924
  • Ibrahim, Alfian. "Aceh and the Perang Sabil." Indonesian Heritage: Early Modern History. Vol. 3, ed. Anthony Reid, Sian Jay and T. Durairajoo. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2001. p. 132–133
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For the 1976 2005 insurgency see Insurgency in Aceh Aceh WarArtist s depiction of the Battle of Samalanga in 1878Date1873 1913LocationAceh Sultanate present day Aceh Indonesia ResultDutch victory Imposition of Dutch rule over AcehTerritorialchangesAceh is annexed into the Dutch East IndiesBelligerents Netherlands Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Royal Netherlands NavyAceh Sultanate Ottoman Empire Islamic ulama 1 2 Commanders and leadersMajor General J H R Kohler General Jan van Swieten Major General J L J H Pel Major General Karel van der Heijden WIA Major General Henry Demmeni DOW Major General Jan Jacob Karel de Moulin General J B van Heutsz 1898 1904 1 Lieutenant General J C van der Wijck 1904 05 1 Gotfried van Daalen 1905 08 1 H N A Swart 1908 13 1 George Frederik Willem BorelSultan Mahmud Syah 3 Sultan Alauddin Muhammad Da ud Syah II 1874 1903 4 Tuanku Raja Keumala 1 Tuanku Mahmud 1 Teuku Panglima Polem Muda Perkasa 3 Teuku Umar 5 Cut Nyak Dhien 6 Strength3 000 troops First Aceh Expedition 3 13 000 Second Aceh Expedition 3 12 000 European KNIL troops 1903 2 23 000 Indonesian KNIL troops 2 10 000 200 000 troops 7 Casualties and losses37 000 killed including by cholera 2 60 70 000 killed including by cholera 2 10 000 refugees 2 The Aceh War Indonesian Perang Aceh also known as the Dutch War or the Infidel War 1873 1913 was an armed military conflict between the Sultanate of Aceh and the Kingdom of the Netherlands which was triggered by discussions between representatives of Aceh and the United States in Singapore during early 1873 8 The war was part of a series of conflicts in the late 19th century that consolidated Dutch rule over modern day Indonesia The campaign drew controversy in the Netherlands as photographs and accounts of the death toll were reported Isolated bloody insurgencies continued as late as 1914 1 and less violent forms of Acehnese resistance continued to persist until World War II and the Japanese occupation Contents 1 Background 2 Combat operations 2 1 Strategies 2 2 First Dutch offensive 2 3 Second Dutch offensive 2 4 Holy war 2 5 Pacification 2 6 Suicide attacks 3 Aftermath 3 1 Dutch Kerkhoff Poucut Cemetery 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksBackground EditFor much of the 19th century Aceh s independence had been guaranteed by the Anglo Dutch Treaty of 1824 and its status as a protectorate of the Ottoman Empire since the 16th century 9 During the 1820s Aceh became a regional political and commercial power supplying half of the world s pepper which increased the revenues and influence of local feudal rajas 10 Growing European and American demand for pepper led to a series of diplomatic skirmishes between the British French and Americans During the reign of Sultan Alauddin Ibrahim Mansur Syah 1838 1870 the Aceh Sultanate brought the regional rajas under its control and extended its domain over the east coast 10 However this southward trend clashed with the northwards expansion of Dutch colonialism in Sumatra 10 Following the 1869 opening of the Suez Canal and changing shipping routes the British and Dutch signed the 1871 Anglo Dutch Treaty of Sumatra which ended British territorial claims to Sumatra allowing the Dutch a free hand within their sphere of influence in Maritime Southeast Asia while handing them the responsibility to check piracy 3 In return Britain gained control of the Dutch Gold Coast in Africa and equal commercial rights in Siak 7 Dutch territorial ambitions in Aceh were fuelled by a desire to exploit its natural resources especially black pepper and oil and to eliminate an independent native state player The Dutch also sought to ward off rival colonial powers that had ambitions in Southeast Asia particularly the British and the French 11 Combat operations EditStrategies Edit The Dutch tried several strategies over the course of the war single rapid attacks in 1873 failed which then led them to pursue a naval blockade reconciliation efforts concentration within a line of forts and finally passive containment This all had scant success The operations costs 15 to 20 million guilders a year which nearly bankrupted the colonial government 12 First Dutch offensive Edit Main article First Aceh Expedition In 1873 negotiations took place in Singapore between representatives of the Aceh Sultanate and the local American Consul over a potential bilateral treaty 7 The Dutch saw this as a violation of a prior agreement with the British in 1871 and used this as an opportunity to annex Aceh militarily 1 An expedition under Major General Johan Harmen Rudolf Kohler was sent out on 26 March 1873 which bombarded the capital Banda Aceh and was able to occupy most of the coastal areas by April 7 It was the intention of the Dutch to attack and take the Sultan s palace which would also lead to the occupation of the entire country The Sultan requested and possibly received military aid from Italy and the United Kingdom in Singapore In any case the Aceh army was rapidly modernised and enlarged with figures ranging from 10 000 to 100 000 7 Underestimating the military abilities of the Acehnese the Dutch made some tactical errors and sustained losses including the deaths of Kohler and 80 troops 7 These defeats undermined Dutch morale and prestige 3 Forced to retreat the Dutch imposed a naval blockade of Aceh In an attempt to preserve Aceh s independence Sultan Mahmud appealed to the other Western powers and Turkey for direct help but to little avail While the American Consul was sympathetic the American government remained neutral Due to its weak position in the international political stage the Ottoman Empire was impotent and the British refused to intervene due to their relations with the Dutch Only the French agreed to respond to Mahmud s appeal 4 Second Dutch offensive Edit Main article Second Aceh Expedition Dismantled Ottoman and Acehnese guns following the Dutch conquest of Aceh in 1874 Illustrated London News In November 1873 a second expedition consisting of 13 000 troops led by General Jan van Swieten was dispatched to Aceh 8 The invasion coincided with a cholera outbreak which killed thousands on both sides 4 By January 1874 deteriorating conditions forced Sultan Mahmud Syah and his followers to abandon Banda Aceh and retreat to the interior Meanwhile Dutch forces occupied the capital and captured the symbolically important dalam sultan s palace leading the Dutch to believe that they had won The Dutch occupiers then abolished the Acehnese Sultanate and declared Aceh to be annexed to the Dutch East Indies proper 4 Following Mahmud s death from cholera the Acehnese proclaimed a young grandson of Alauddin Ibrahim Mansur Syah named Tuanku Muhammad Daud as Alauddin Muhammad Da ud Syah II r 1874 1903 and continued their struggle in the hills and jungle territory for ten years with heavy casualties on both sides 4 Around 1880 the Dutch strategy changed and rather than continuing the war they now concentrated on defending areas they already controlled which were mostly limited to the capital city modern Banda Aceh 3 and the harbour town of Ulee Lheue Dutch naval blockades succeeded in forcing the uleebelang or secular chiefs to sign treaties that extended Dutch control along the coastal regions However the uleebelang then used their newly restored revenues to finance the Acehnese resistance forces The Dutch intervention in Aceh cost the lives of thousands of troops and was a severe drain on the colonial government s financial expenditure On 13 October 1880 the colonial government declared the war was over and installed a civilian government but continued spending heavily to maintain control over the areas it occupied In an attempt to win the support of the local Acehnese the Dutch rebuilt the Masjid Raya Baiturrahman or Great Mosque in Banda Aceh as a gesture of reconciliation 3 Holy war Edit War began again in 1883 when the British ship Nisero was stranded in Aceh in an area where the Dutch had little influence A local leader asked for ransom from both the Dutch and the British and under British pressure the Dutch were forced to attempt to liberate the sailors After a failed Dutch attempt to rescue the hostages where the local leader Teuku Umar was asked for help but he refused the Dutch together with the British invaded the territory The Sultan gave up the hostages and received a large amount of cash in exchange 13 The Dutch Minister of Warfare August Willem Philip Weitzel again declared open war on Aceh and warfare continued with little success as before Facing a technologically superior foe the Acehnese resorted to guerrilla warfare particularly traps and ambushes Dutch troops retaliated by wiping out entire villages and murdering both prisoners and civilians 14 In 1884 the Dutch responded by withdrawing all their forces in Aceh into a fortified line around Banda Aceh 3 The Dutch now also tried to enlist local leaders the aforementioned Umar was bought with cash opium and weapons Umar received the title panglima prang besar Great war commander Capture of Fort Kuta Reh in Alasland on 14 June 1904 caused several hundred casualties to indigenous people photo by H M Neeb Umar instead called himself Teuku Djohan Pahlawan Johan the Heroic On 1 January 1894 Umar even received Dutch aid to build an army However two years later Umar attacked the Dutch with his new army rather than aiding the Dutch in subjugating inner Aceh This is recorded in Dutch history as Het verraad van Teukoe Oemar The Treason of Teuku Umar From the mid 1880s the Acehnese military leadership was dominated by religious ulema including Teungku Chik di Tiro Muhamma Saman who propagated the concept of a holy war through sermons and texts known as hikayat or poetic tales Acehnese fighters viewed themselves as religious martyrs fighting infidel invaders 1 By this stage the Aceh War was being used as a symbol of Muslim resistance to Western imperialism 2 In 1892 and 1893 Aceh remained independent despite the Dutch efforts Major J B van Heutsz a colonial military leader then wrote a series of articles on Aceh He was supported by Dr Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje of the University of Leiden then the leading Dutch expert on Islam Hurgronje managed to get the confidence of many Aceh leaders and gathered valuable intelligence for the Dutch government on the activities of Indonesian Hajj pilgrims 2 His works remained an official secret for many years In Hurgronje s analysis of Acehnese society he minimised the role of the Sultan and argued that attention should be paid to the hereditary chiefs and nobles the Ulee Balang who he felt could be trusted as local administrators However he argued Aceh s religious leaders the ulema could not be trusted or persuaded to co operate and must be destroyed As part of a policy of divide and conquer Hurgronje urged the Dutch leadership to widen the existing gulf between the Acehnese nobility and the religious leaders 2 Hurgronje was a friend of the Arab Grand Mufti of Batavia Habib Usman bin Yahya who issued a fatwa to support the Dutch war against Aceh In 1894 the penghulu or judge Hasan Mustafa also helped bring a stop to the fighting by issuing a fatwa telling the Muslims to submit to the Dutch colonial government 15 Pacification Edit A Dutch military patrol on break during the Aceh War photo by H M Neeb In 1898 Van Heutsz was proclaimed governor of Aceh and with his lieutenant later Dutch Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn would finally conquer most of Aceh They followed Hurgronje s suggestions finding cooperative uleebelang that would support them in the countryside and isolating the resistance from their rural support base 2 The Dutch formulated a new strategy of counter insurgency warfare by deploying light armed Marechaussee units and using scorched earth tactics 1 Van Heutsz charged Colonel Gotfried Coenraad Ernst van Daalen with breaking remaining resistance 16 In 1903 the main secular Acehnese resistance leaders including Sultan Alauddin Muhammad Da ud Syah II Tuanku Raja Keumala Mahmud and Muda Perkasa capitulated 1 During the 1904 campaign Colonel van Daalen destroyed several villages killing at least 2 922 Acehnese among which were 1 149 women and children during the 1904 campaign 16 Dutch losses numbered 26 and Van Daalen was promoted Episodes of marked Dutch military cruelty occurred during this period Photographs of a June 1904 Dutch massacre in Kuta Reh village of the Alas people taken during the Dutch military expedition in Aceh s Gayo and Alas regions for example indicate that killings of large groups of civilians occurred on some occasions 17 By the end of 1904 most of Aceh was under Dutch control and had an indigenous government that cooperated with the colonial state The Dutch consolidated their control over Aceh by practising a policy of religious tolerance as a means of dissuading the Acehnese from taking up an armed struggle 1 According to Historian Adrian Vickers during the entire Aceh war 50 000 to 60 000 Acehnese died from violence and disease approximately 2 000 European and allied indigenous soldiers were killed in combat and more than 35 000 soldiers and labourers died from disease 2 The destruction of entire communities also caused 10 000 Acehnese to flee to neighbouring Malaya 2 General van Heutz and staff in a photograph by Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis In the Netherlands at the time Van Heutsz was considered a hero named the Pacifier of Aceh and was promoted to become governor general of the entire Dutch Indies in 1904 A still existent monument to him was erected in Amsterdam though his image and name were later removed to protest his violent legacy The Dutch establishment defended its actions in Aceh by citing a moral imperative to liberate the masses from the oppression and backward practices of independent native rulers that did not meet accepted international norms 18 The Aceh War also encouraged Dutch annexation of other independent states in Bali Moluccas Borneo and Sulawesi between 1901 and 1910 18 Colonial influence in the remote highland areas of Aceh was never substantial however and limited guerrilla resistance led by religious ulema persisted until 1942 1 Unable to dislodge the Dutch many of the ulema gradually discontinued their resistance The region of Gayo remained a centre of resistance as late as 1914 19 One intellectual Sayyid Ahmad Khan advocated discontinuing the jihad against the Dutch 1 Suicide attacks Edit Muslim Acehnese from the Aceh Sultanate performed holy war known as Parang sabil against invaders such as on the Americans in the attack on Joseph Peabody s ship Friendship during the First Sumatran expedition and the Second Sumatran expedition 20 21 22 23 24 25 excessive citations and against the Dutch in the Dutch expedition on the west coast of Sumatra and most notably during the Aceh War where they performed suicide attacks as part of parang sabil It was considered as part of personal jihad in the Islamic religion of the Acehnese The Dutch called it Atjeh moord 26 27 Acehmord Aceh mord Aceh mord Aceh Pungo The Acehnese work of literature the Hikayat Perang Sabil provided the background and reasoning for the Aceh mord Acehnese suicide attacks upon the Dutch 28 29 30 The Indonesian translations of the Dutch terms are Aceh bodoh Aceh pungo or Aceh gila Aceh mord 31 Atjeh moord was also used against the Japanese by the Acehnese during the Japanese occupation of Aceh 32 The Acehnese Ulama Islamic clerics fought against both the Dutch and the Japanese revolting against the Dutch in February 1942 and against Japan in November 1942 The revolt was led by the All Aceh Religious Scholars Association PUSA The Japanese suffered 18 dead in the uprising while they slaughtered up to 100 or over 120 Acehnese 33 The revolt happened in Bayu and was centred around Tjot Plieng village s religious school 34 35 36 37 During the revolt the Japanese troops armed with mortars and machine guns were charged by sword wielding Acehnese under Teungku Abduldjalil Tengku Abdul Djalil in Buloh Gampong Teungah and Tjot Plieng on 10 and 13 November 38 39 40 41 42 43 excessive citations In May 1945 the Acehnese rebelled again 44 The original Acehnese language work Hikayat Prang Sabi see also id Hikayat Prang Sabi written with the Jawi script has been transliterated into the Latin alphabet and annotated by Ibrahim Alfian which was published in Jakarta 45 Perang sabi was the Acehnese word for jihad a holy war and Acehnese language literary works on perang sabi were distributed by Islamic clerics ulama such as Teungku di Tiro to help the resistance against the Dutch in the Aceh War 46 The recompense awarded by the fighters in paradise detailed in Arabic texts and mentions of Dutch atrocities were expounded on in the Hikayat Perang Sabil which was communally read by small cabals of ulama and Acehnese who swore an oath before going to achieve the desired status of martyr by launching suicide attacks on the Dutch 47 Perang sabil was the Malay equivalent to other terms like Jihad Ghazawat for Holy war 48 Fiction novels like Sayf Muhammad Isa s Sabil Prahara di Bumi Rencong on the war by Aceh against the Dutch include references to Hikayat Perang Sabil 49 Mualimbunsu Syam Muhammad wrote the work titled Motives for Perang Sabil in Nusantara Motivasi perang sabil di Nusantara kajian kitab Ramalan Joyoboyo Dalailul Khairat dan Hikayat Perang Sabil on Indonesia s history of Islamic holy war 50 Children and women were inspired to engage in suicide attacks by the Hikayat Perang Sabil against the Dutch 28 The hikayat is considered as an important part of 19th century Malay literature 51 In Dutch occupied Aceh the hikayat was confiscated from Sabi s house during a police raid on 27 September 1917 52 53 54 Dutch soldiers were attacked with blades wielded by Acehnese fighters on their feet 55 Aftermath Edit Kraton of Aceh after Dutch occupation 1874 Following the Aceh War local uleebelang aristocracy assisted the Dutch in maintaining control over Aceh through indirect rule 56 Despite the end of open conflict popular Acehnese resistance against Dutch rule continued until the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies in 1942 Throughout the early 20th century Dutch citizens and personnel were targeted by sporadic suicide attacks by the Acehnese who were influenced by the Hikayat Perang Sabil and other proscribed texts 57 This phenomenon was known as the Atjeh moord or Aceh murders and forced the Dutch government to maintain substantial forces within the province 19 During the early 20th century Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell developed oil refineries to profit from the province s substantial oil reserves 58 Acehnese resentment was further stoked by a system of forced corvee labour where subjects were required to work on government roadwork projects for 24 days a year 19 By the mid 1920s Aceh had reverted to a state of full scale guerrilla warfare Following the Japanese invasion the occupying Japanese forces were initially welcomed by Acehnese nationalists as liberators though differences led to protracted resistance by Islamic inspired rebels culminating in a rebellion at Bayu 59 The Acehnese ulama Islamic clerics fought against both the Dutch and the Japanese revolting against the Dutch in February 1942 and against Japan in November 1942 The revolt was led by the Pan Aceh Religious Scholars Association PUSA The Japanese suffered 18 dead in the uprising while they slaughtered up to 100 120 Acehnese 60 61 The revolt happened in Bayu and was centred around Tjot Plieng village s religious school 35 36 37 62 During the revolt the Japanese troops armed with mortars and machine guns were charged by sword wielding Acehnese under Teungku Abduldjalil Tengku Abdul Djalil in Buloh Gampong Teungah and Tjot Plieng on 10 and 13 November 43 38 63 64 40 41 42 excessive citations In May 1945 the Acehnese rebelled again 65 During the Indonesian National Revolution following the Japanese surrender in August 1945 the aristocracy were targeted for retribution due to their collaboration with the Dutch and the region became a stronghold for Sukarno s Republicans 56 Due to the entrenched anti colonial sentiment the Dutch bypassed Aceh during their police actions from 1947 to 1948 59 Following the Dutch transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia in August 1949 many Acehnese became dissatisfied with the policies of the Javanese dominated central government in Jakarta and began agitating for autonomy 66 Grievances included Aceh s incorporation into the predominantly Christian Batak province of North Sumatra its poor financial and political rewards within the unitary Indonesian Republic and the failure to implement sharia law 59 67 In 1953 Sukarno have stated that he opposed Aceh s plan to enact sharia law stating that Indonesia is a nation state with the ideology of Pancasila not a theocratic country with a certain religious orientation 68 As told by Sajoeti who also accompanied Sukarno the Acehnese people did not welcome Sukarno s visit and even suspected that he had a secularizing agenda For instance there were some posters which read We regret the President s speech in Amuntai We love the President but we love the country more We love the country but we love religion more ISLAM IS SACRED Loving the religion means loving the country But it doesn t mean loving the country is loving the religion and Those who reject Islamic laws are not defenders of Islam 69 These factors led to a short lived rebellion by the Darul Islam movement under Daud Bereueh 59 which was suppressed by the Indonesian armed forces 67 70 Despite this many Acehnese and other Sumatrans resented key government and military positions being dominated by Javanese 67 The resulting rebellion led by the Free Aceh Movement raged in the province until a peace treaty was signed between the Acehnese movement and the Indonesian government following the Great Aceh tsunami Dutch Kerkhoff Poucut Cemetery Edit Numerous Dutch casualties of the Aceh War are buried in the Kerkhof Peucut Cemetery also called Peutjoet or Peutjut Cemetery the Dutch military cemetery is located near the centre of Banda Aceh next to the Aceh Tsunami Museum The Kerkhoff Poucut is recorded as the largest Dutch military cemetery outside of the Netherlands There are around 2 200 graves of Dutch soldiers as well as recruits from Ambon Manado and Java as well as several Dutch generals 71 See also Edit Indonesia portal Netherlands portal Politics portal War portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aceh War Padri war Java warReferences Edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Ibrahim Alfian Aceh and the Perang Sabil Indonesian Heritage Early Modern History Vol 3 ed Anthony Reid Sian Jay and T Durairajoo Singapore Editions Didier Millet 2001 p 132 133 a b c d e f g h i j k l Vickers 2005 p 13 a b c d e f g h i Ibrahim 2001 p 132 a b c d e Ricklefs 1993 p 145 Anthony Reid 2005 p 336 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9971 69 298 8 Ricklefs M C 1993 A History of Modern Indonesia Since c 1300 Hampshire UK MacMillan Press pp 143 46 ISBN 978 0 8047 2195 0 Ricklefs Merle Calvin 2001 A History of Modern Indonesia Since C 1200 illustrated ed Stanford University Press ISBN 0804744807 Retrieved 10 March 2014 Vickers Adrian 2005 A History of Modern Indonesia New York Cambridge University Press pp 10 13 ISBN 0 521 54262 6 Tempo Indonesia s Weekly News Magazine Volume 3 Issues 43 52 Arsa Raya Perdana 2003 Berita Kadjian Sumatera Sumatra Research Bulletin Volumes 1 4 Contributors Sumatra Research Council Hull England University of Hull Centre for South East Asian Studies Dewan Penjelidikan Sumatera 1971 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link Sedjarah Iahirnja Tentara Nasional Indonesia Contributor Indonesia Angkatan Darat Komando Daerah Militer II Bukit Barisan Sejarah Militer Sedjarah Militer Dam II BB 1970 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite 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