Which Dutch orientalist scholar and advisor to Governor-General Van Heutsz infiltrated Acehnese society under the alias 'Abdul Ghaffar' to devise counter-insurgency doctrine separating the ulama from the uleebalang?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
- Step 1: Snouck Hurgronje spent months in Mecca before traveling to Aceh in 1891, studying Acehnese language and Islamic customs. Step 2. He advised the Dutch military to crush the religious leaders (ulama) ruthlessly while co-opting the hereditary secular nobility (uleebalang). Answer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. Why not the others: General Kohler was killed on the grounds of the Baiturrahman Mosque in 1873; Van Heutsz was the military governor.
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