BY: K.T.H. Van Langen, INDIAN GOVERNMENT DEPUTY ASSISTANT VICE NETHERLANDS
In general, their religion is Islam, but they rarely do Juma'at worship or religious ceremony, which was regretted by Aceh's religious leaders and the Malays, who sometimes visit the island. They admit that not much can be done with these islands, because usually they get the answer: You embraced Islam with you and our way our way.
All land that is not done is considered to be state property (in the past on the Sultan of Aceh). Forest land can be cultivated without the required permit from the village head, and anything from the forest. Cultivated land becomes the property of the work. By the time he died the land was divided equally between his children.
Islamic marriage performed. As gold mate, djinamoe, given 15 kabong (1) fabric and $ 5, and a $ 1 for the wife after the wedding night. At marriage the wife brought a female buffalo, one goat, rice at 2 nalie (2), rice seeds, se 'goendja' rice, one room in his parents' house, some chickens, a dozen plates and cups with doelang copper. If the wife dies, then all this stuff must be returned to the family, although there are children.
They are entitled to bring his wife to anywhere on this island, but are not authorized to leave. However, the children belong to her husband.
The women here are distinguished by their fertility, and it is not something special, that they gave birth to 10 or 12 children.
After the birth of first child then the father and mother provided her son with an additional name: the father or mother.
