Cumbok: A Piece of Acehs Dark History

THE voice was quivering. I dont want to speak about it, said Professor Teuku Ibrahim Alfian, a historian of the University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. Ibrahims father and mother were saved from the Cumbok War in Aceh in 1946. But his grandmother, grandfather, uncle and many of his cousins became the victims of mass anger at the uleebalang, or aristocratic families. Even now I still dont know where they were buried, Ibrahim said.

Ibrahim Alfian

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