A national heroine
She led resistance to the Dutch.
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A traditional Acehnese timber house raised on stilts, rebuilt in the style of the home of Cut Nyak Dhien, the Indonesian national heroine who led armed resistance to Dutch colonial rule in Aceh in the late nineteenth century. The Dutch burned the original house in 1896, and this reconstruction was built as a museum in the 1980s. Cut Nyak Dhien was born in 1848 into a family of Acehnese notables and fought beside her husband, Teuku Umar, then went on leading fighters in the forests after his death in 1899, until the Dutch captured her, old and blind, and exiled her to Sumedang in Java, where she died in 1908. The house holds photographs, documents, old weapons and objects from her life, with accounts of her and her husband's lives, and the building itself is a fine example of traditional Acehnese architecture. The fee is a token amount. Half an hour to an hour is enough, and the house is on the way to Lampuuk Beach, so combine them in half a day.
She led resistance to the Dutch.
A timber house on stilts.
Photos, documents and weapons.
Lampisang, Peukan Bada district, about 10 km south-west of Banda Aceh
No, the Dutch burned the original in 1896; this is a reconstruction in the same style on the same site, with some of the original foundations surviving.