SUMEDANG, 6 NOVEMBER 1908
The DAYS ... Exactly December 11, 1906,
Regent Sumedang, Prince Arial Suriaatmaja arrival three guests. All three are prisoners of the Dutch East Indies government. An elderly woman is elderly, nearsighted and suffering from gout, another straight man of about 50 years and a 15-year-old juvenile. Though looking tired, the three of them looked stoic. The worn clothes she wore were the only clothes she had in addition to a beads and a rice pot from clay.
Later on seeing the elderly lady very religious, Prince Aria did not place her in prison, but chose a place wronged
house of local religious leaders. To the Prince Suriaatmaja, the Netherlands did not reveal who the old lady suffering from rheumatism. Even until his death, November 6, 1908 Sumedang people never know who the real woman.
A very long journey has been taken by the woman before finally resting peacefully and buried in Mountain Puyuh not far from downtown Sumedang. All they know, because of very bad health, the old woman almost never left the house. His activities are limited to dhikr or teaching the local mothers and children who come to visit. Occasionally they bring clothes or food to the polite old lady, who later because of her religious knowledge is called Ibu Perbu.
At that time no one thought if
the woman they called Ibu Perbu was "The Queen of Aceh Battle" from Aceh War (1873-1904) named Tjoet Nyak Dhien. The lioness with a rencong in the hands that jumped straight into the battlefield. A true hero without a compromise who can not accept his area colonized.
The last days of Tjoet Nyak Dhien are indeed decorated by silence and quiet. Far from the land of birth and loved ones. The beautiful and intelligent little girl called Cut Nyak was born to a dutiful noble family in Lampadang in 1848. Her father was Uleebalang named Teuku Nanta Setia, the descendant of Minang migrants from West Sumatera to Aceh around the 18th century when the sultanate of Aceh was ruled by Sultan Jamalul Badrul Munir.
Growing up in an environment that holds a strict religious tradition makes little girl Cut Nyak Dhien a smart girl. At the age of 12 he then married his parents with Teuku Ibrahim Lamnga who is the son of Uleebalang Lamnga XIII.
The atmosphere of the war that was concerned with Aceh's atmosphere broke out when April 1, 1873 F.N. Nieuwenhuyzen memaklumatkan war against the sultanate of Aceh. Since then wave after wave of Dutch invasion of Aceh has always been repelled by the Aceh army, and Tjoet Nyak is certainly there. Among the slashes of rencong, the mighty war of the warrior and the cannon boom, he also shouted the burning spirit of the people of Aceh when the Great Mosque fell and burned Dutch troops ...
".. My people, all believers the people of Aceh! Take a look !! Watch with your eyes our mosque burned !! Our place of worship is destroyed !! They are against God !! Remember that! Never forget and never forgive the kaphe (kafir) of the Netherlands !! ". The Aceh resistance is not just in words (Szekely Lulofs, 1951: 59).
The Aceh War is a story of courage, sacrifice and love of the land of birth. So is Tjoet Nyak Dhien. Together with his father and her husband, every day .. every time spent fighting and fighting against the Dutch caphe-kaphe. But the war was also the one who took one by one whom he loved, his father and her husband following the death in battle at Glee Tarom June 29, 1870.
Two years later, Tjoet Nyak Dhien received the proposal of Teuku Umar with consideration of the war strategy. Later Teuku Umar also died in a sudden raid by the Dutch in Meulaboh, February 11, 1899.
But for Tjoet Nyak, the war against the Dutch was not only the property of Teuku Umar, or Teungku Ibrahim Lamnga her husband, nor the monopoly of Teuku Nanta Setia his father, or the men of Aceh. The Aceh War belongs to the people. At least that's what Tjoet Nyak shows, he keeps organizing attacks on the Dutch.
Years later, all the energy and thought of the noble princess was only poured out on the war to expel the invaders. Moving from one hideout to another, from one forest to another, eating less and lack of care caused her health to degenerate. The condition of the troops was not much different.
The troops became weaker until when on 16 November 1905 the Dutch Kaphe stormed into his hideout .. Tjoet Nyak Dhien and his small army were defeated. With age aged, nearsighted and sickly, Tjoet Nyak can not do much. Rencong was almost useless to defend himself. Yes, Tjoet Nyak was caught and