Digital images of a permit to open up a piece of forest land to plant tubers (ubi, keledek) and bananas Boekit Lintang, Singkep in name of Awang issued by Singkep To-gun Cho, Tengku Hitam. Scribe: Tengku Hitam – Singkep To Gun Cho; Date: 19 San-gatsu 2604.
Notes: A document from the period of the Japanese occupation, Printed form from the Dutch period in two columns with jawi on the left and latin on the right. The info about the owner filled in with a typewriter on the right-hand side. The Dutch has been scored through - Hoofd van plaatselijk bestuur (Onder) districthoofd - in red. At the end of the column at the right there are 2 round seals, the first in Japanese characters and with the words Singkep T Gun Cho Dabo: tinta hitam. And the second seal to the right has a Japanese character in the centre right above the name Tgk: (Tengku) Hitam. On the second page we find the regulations for people who are granted to open up a piece of forest land also printed in 2 columns.
