General Information

Smith, Holly S., 1997,"Aceh: Art and Culture", Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

Hurgronje, C. Snouck, 1906,"The Acehnese", (trans. by  A. W. S. O'Sullivan), Vols. I and II, Leiden: Brill.

Hiorth, Finngeir, 1991, "A Sketch of Aceh's History", Kabar Seberang: Sulathing Maphilindo, no. 22,  p. 1-22.

Leigh, Barbara, 1989,"Hands of Time: The Crafts of Aceh", Jakarta, Djambatan Press.

Said, Mohammad, 1961-1991, "Aceh Sepanjang Abad", (in Indonesian), Vol. 1, 2, & 3, Medan. 

Siegel, James T., 1984, "Acehnese", in Richard V. Weekes (Ed.), Muslim Peoples : A World Ethnographic Survey, 2nd ed., Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press.

Languange

Asyik, Abdul G., 1987, "A Contextual Grammar of Acehnese Sentences (Complementation)", PhD thesis, The University of Michigan.

Daud, Bukhari and Mark Durie, 1999,"Kamus Basa Aceh : Kamus Bahasa Aceh : Acehnese - Indonesian - English Thesaurus", Pacific Linguist Press.

Durie, Mark, 1985, "A Grammar of Acehnese On the Basis of a Dialect of North Aceh", Dordrecht : Foris Publications.

Durie, Mark, Bukhari Daud, and Mawardi Hasan, 1994, "Acehnese", in Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (Eds.), Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and Empirical Findings, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co..

        Notes: For complete list of Mr. Mark Durie writings on Acehnese laguange study, please visit his homepage at http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/people/durie.html 

Sociology, Culture, and Economic

Alfian, 1985,"The Ulama in Acehnese Society", in Ahmad Ibrahim, Sharon Siddique and Yasmin Hussain (Eds.), Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Bowen, John Richard, 1991,"Sumatran Politics and Poetics : Gayo History, 1900-1989", New Haven : Yale University Press.

Bowen, John Richard, 1993,"Return to Sender: A Muslim Discourse of Sorcery in a Relatively Egalitarian Society, the Gayo of Nothern Sumatra", in C. W. Watson and Roy Ellen (Eds.), Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia, Honolulu-Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

Bowen, John Richard, 1993, "Muslims Through Discourse : Religion and Ritual in Gayo Society", Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press.

Brown, David, 1994,"Neo-Patrimonialism and National Integration in Indonesia: The Case of Aceh", in Brown, The State and Ethnic Politics in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge Publisher.

Dawood, Dayan, and Sjafrizal, 1989,"Aceh: The LNG Boom and Enclave Development", in Hal Hill (Ed.), Unity and Diversity: Regional Economic Development in Indonesia Since 1970, Singapore: Oxford University Press.

Drewes, G. W. J. and P. Voorhoeve, 1958, "Adat Atjeh", The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff.

Drewes, G. W. J., (Ed. and trans.), 1979, "Hikajat Potjut Muhamat: An Achehnese Epic", The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff.

Drewes, G. W. J., (Ed. and trans.), 1980, " Two Achehnese Poems : Hikajat Ranto and Hikajat Teungku di Meuke", The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff.

Iskandar, Teuku, 1958, "De Hikajat Atjeh" (in Dutch), Gravenhage : M. Nijhoff.

Ito, Takeshi, 1984, "The World of the Adat Aceh: A Historical Study of the Sultanate of Aceh", PhD thesis, Canberra: Australian National University.

Iwabuchi, Akifumi, 1994, "The People of the Alas Valley : A Study of An Ethnic Group of Northern Sumatra", New York : Oxford University Press.

Morin, Stephen R., 1997, "Common Property and Exchange in a Natural Resource Management System: A Case Study from Northern Sumatra (Muslim, Livestock, Range Management)", PhD thesis, University of Kentucky.

Raap, Wilhelmina R., 1994, "The Great Mosque of Banda Aceh: Its History, Architecture and Its Relationship to the Development of Islam in Northern Sumatra", MA thesis, Canada: University of Victoria.

Saby, Yusny, 1995, "Islam and Social Change: The Role of the 'Ulama' in Acehnese Society", PhD thesis, Temple University.

Schlegel, Stuart A., 1979, "Technocrats in a Muslim Society: Symbolic Community in Aceh", in Gloria Davis (Ed.), What is Modern Indonesian Culture?, Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies.

Siapno, Jacqueline A., 1997, "The Politics of Gender, Islam, and Nation-State in Aceh, Indonesia: A Historical Analysis of Power, Co-optation, and Resistance (Women)", PhD thesis, California: University of California at Berkeley.

Siegel, James T., 1969, "The Rope of God", Berkeley: The University of California Press.

Siegel, James T., 1979,"Shadow and Sound: The Historical Thought of A Sumatran People", Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Teeuw, A, 1964, "Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai dan Sejarah Melayu",  in John Bastin and R. Roolvink, Malayan and Indonesian Studies, Oxford - The Clarendon Press.


Sultanate of Aceh (from 1300s to 1800s)

Alves, Jorge M. dos Santos, 1998, "The Foreign Traders' Management in the Sultanates of the Straits of Malacca: The Cases of Malacca, Samudera-Pasai and Aceh, 15th and 16th Centuries", in Calude Guillot et al (Eds.), From The Mediterranean To the China Sea: Miscellaneous Notes, Wiesbaden - Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag.

Anderson, John, 1971, "Acheen and the Ports on the North and East Coasts of Sumatra", Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

Auni, Luthfi, 1993, "The Decline of the Islamic Empire of Aceh (1641-1699)", MA thesis, Canada: McGill University.

Boxer, C. R., 1964, "The Acehnese Attack on Malacca in 1629, as Described in Contemporary Portuguese Sources" in John Bastin and R. Roolvink, Malayan and Indonesian Studies, Oxford - The Clarendon Press.

Braker, L F, 1975, "State and Statecraft in 17th Century Aceh", in Anthony Reid and Lance Castles (Eds), Pre-colonial State Systems in Southeast Asia: The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bali-Lombok, South Celebes, Council of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

El Ibrahimy, H. M. Nur, 1993, "Selayang Pandang Langkah Diplomasi Kerajaan Aceh", Jakarta : Gramedia Widiasarana Indonesia.

Hadi, Amirul, 1992, "Aceh and the Portuguese: A Study of the Struggle of Islam in Southeast Asia, 1500-1579", MA thesis, Canada: McGill University.

Lee, Kam Hing, 1995, "Sultanate of Aceh: Relations With the British 1760-1824", Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

Lombard, Denys, 1986, "Kerajaan Aceh : Jaman Sultan Iskandar Muda (1607-1636)", (trans. from Le Sultanat d'Atjeh au Temps d'Iskandar Muda 1607-1636), Jakarta : Balai Pustaka.

Reid, Anthony, 1969, "The Contest for North Sumatra: Atjeh, the Netherlands and Britain, 1858-1898" Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

Reid, Anthony, 1975, "Trade and the Problem of Royal Power in Aceh. Three Stages: c. 1550-1700" in Anthony Reid and Lance Castles (Eds), Pre-colonial State Systems in Southeast Asia: The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bali-Lombok, South Celebes, Council of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Reid, Anthony, (Ed.), 1995, "Witnesses to Sumatra: A Travellers' Anthology", Oxford in Asia Paperbacks, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. (Note: seventeen out of 38 chapters of the book are about Aceh).


Aceh War Era (1873-1942)

Alfian, Ibrahim, 1987, "Perang di Jalan Allah: Perang Aceh 1873-1912", (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pustaka Sinar Harapan.

H. C. Zentgraaf, 1983, "Aceh", (trans. from Atjeh, in Dutch, 1939), Jakarta: Beuna.

J. I. Bakker, 1993,"The Aceh War and the Creation of the Netherlands East Indies State", in A. Hamish Ion and E. J. Errington, Great Powers and Little Wars; The Limits of Power, Westport, London: Praeger Publisher.

Van't Veer, Paul, 1985, "Perang Aceh : Kisah Kegagalan Snouck Hurgronje ", (trans. from De Atjeh-Oorlog), Jakarta: Grafitipers.


Early Independence Period (1945-1947)

Reid, Anthony, 1979, "The Blood of the People: Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra", Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

Morris, Eric Eugene, 1985, "Aceh: Social Revolution and the Islamic Vision", Audrey R. Kahin (Ed.), Regional Dynamics of The Indonesian Revolution: Unity From Diversity, Honolulu-Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.


Darul Islam Rebellion (1953-1962)

Clive J. Christie, 1996,"Nationalism and the 'House of Islam': the Acehnese Revolt and the Republic of Indonesia" in Christie, A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism, and Separatism, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Morris, Eric Eugene, 1985, "Islam and Politics in Aceh: A Study of Center-Periphery Relations in Indonesia", PhD Thesis, Cornell University.

Sjamsuddin, Nazaruddin, 1985, "The Republican Revolt: A Study of the Acehnese Rebellion", Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Van Djik, C.,  1981, "Rebellion Under the Banner of Islam: The Darul Islam in Indonesia", The Hague Martinus Nijhoff,.


Free Aceh Movement Rebellion (1976-1981 and 1989-1993)

Hiorth, Finngeir, June 1986, "Free Aceh: An Impossible Dream?", Kabar Seberang: Sulathing Maphilindo, no. 17,  p. 182-94.

Sjamsuddin, Nazaruddin, 1984, "Issues and Politics of Regionalism in Indonesia: Evaluating the Acehnese Experience", in Lim Joo-Jock and Vani S., (Eds.), Armed Separatism in Southeast Asia,  Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Kell, Tim, 1995, " The Roots of Acehnese Rebellion 1989-1992", Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, No. 74, Ithaca-New York: Cornell University.

Hasan Muhammad di Tiro Writings

di Tiro, Hasan Muhammad, 1958, "Democracy for Indonesia", Aceh: Penerbit Seulawah.

_______________, 1965,"The Political Future of the Malay Archipelago", New York: Atjeh Institute in America.

_______________, 1980, "The Legal Status of Acheh-Sumatra Under International Law", Acheh-Sumatra National Liberation Front.

_______________, 1984, "Indonesia as a Model Neo-Colony", a lecture given at City University of London, August 20, 1984.

_______________, 1985, "The Case and the Cause of the National Liberation Front of Acheh-Sumatra", a presentation before The Scandinavian Association of Southeast Asian Social Studies, Goteborg, August 23.

_______________, 1986,"Indonesian Nationalism: A Western Invention to Contain Islam in the Dutch East Indies," in M. Ghayasuddin (Ed.), The Impact of Nationalism on the Muslim World,  London: The Open Press/ Al-Hoda Publishers.

_______________, 1976,"The Price of Freedom: The Unfinished Diary" Open Press Holdings, 300 Steelcase Road West, #8, Markham, Ontario L3R 2W2, Canada.


Military Oppression

Amnesty International, 1993,"Indonesia: 'Shock Therapy' - Restoring Order in Aceh, 1989 - 1993", London: Amnesty International.

Robinson, Geoffrey, 1998,"Rawan is as Rawan Does: The Origins of Disorder in New Order Aceh", Indonesia, vol. 66, p. 127-56.