Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on the Language, Spelling and Pagination of Quotations
- 1 Introduction: Booking Southeast Asia: The History of an Idea
- 2 Booking Southeast Asia: And So It Begins, with a Nightmare
- 3 The New Language-Game of Modern Colonial Capitalism
- 4 Raffles’ Java as Museum
- 5 Dressing the Cannibal: John Anderson’s Sumatra as Market
- 6 Brooke, Keppel, Mundy and Marryat’s Borneo as ‘The Den of Pirates’
- 7 Crawfurd’s Burma as the Torpid ‘Land of Tyranny’
- 8 Bricolage, Power and How a Region Was Discursively Constructed
- Appendix A The full Transcript of the Article by William Cobbett on the Subject of the British Invasion of Java
- Appendix B Keeping an eye on the Javanese: Raffles’ ‘Regulations of 1814 for the More Effectual Administration of Justice in the Provincial Courts of Java'
- Appendix C James Brooke’s Detractors in the British Parliament and the Aborigines’ Protection Society
- Appendix D The clash between the HMS Dido and the Ships of the Rajah of Riao: A Case of Mistaken Identity and Misappropriation of the Signifier ‘Pirate’
- Appendix E The Construction of the Native other in the Writings of Hugh Clifford, British Colonial Resident to Pahang
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix B - Keeping an eye on the Javanese: Raffles’ ‘Regulations of 1814 for the More Effectual Administration of Justice in the Provincial Courts of Java'
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on the Language, Spelling and Pagination of Quotations
- 1 Introduction: Booking Southeast Asia: The History of an Idea
- 2 Booking Southeast Asia: And So It Begins, with a Nightmare
- 3 The New Language-Game of Modern Colonial Capitalism
- 4 Raffles’ Java as Museum
- 5 Dressing the Cannibal: John Anderson’s Sumatra as Market
- 6 Brooke, Keppel, Mundy and Marryat’s Borneo as ‘The Den of Pirates’
- 7 Crawfurd’s Burma as the Torpid ‘Land of Tyranny’
- 8 Bricolage, Power and How a Region Was Discursively Constructed
- Appendix A The full Transcript of the Article by William Cobbett on the Subject of the British Invasion of Java
- Appendix B Keeping an eye on the Javanese: Raffles’ ‘Regulations of 1814 for the More Effectual Administration of Justice in the Provincial Courts of Java'
- Appendix C James Brooke’s Detractors in the British Parliament and the Aborigines’ Protection Society
- Appendix D The clash between the HMS Dido and the Ships of the Rajah of Riao: A Case of Mistaken Identity and Misappropriation of the Signifier ‘Pirate’
- Appendix E The Construction of the Native other in the Writings of Hugh Clifford, British Colonial Resident to Pahang
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In 1814 Stamford Raffles, as the lieutenant-governor of Java, passed the ‘Regulations of 1814 for the More Effectual Administration of Justice in the Provincial Courts of Java’. The preamble to the new regulations began thus:
The Honourable the Lieutenant Governor in Council being deeply impressed with the necessity for framing one adequate, impartial, and consistent code, for the prompt and equitable administration of justice in the provincial courts of the island, with a view to give all ranks of people a due knowledge of their rights and duties, and to ensure to them an enjoyment of the most perfect security of person and property; has been pleased that the following regulation be enacted.
According to the regulations of 1814, all the bupatis (district chiefs) of Java would come under the control and command of the Resident (Article 2) and that the whole territory of Java would be divided into districts that would be administered by the bupatis, who would themselves be under the direction of the colonial Resident (Article 4). The regulations were as much about the administration of justice as they were about the policing of the natives of Java. Within each district there would be sub-districts and divisions where a permanent police presence would be established, in the form of police stations (Article 6). The conduct and administration of the native police force would be in turn the responsibilities of the local headmen (Articles 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), who would also be responsible for the amount of property carried by travellers who travelled through the villages and districts (Article 12).
The regulations of 1814 were largely focused on the movement and settlement of the communities of Java, making sure that there would be a regular census of the local population in villages and towns, and ensuring that the natives of Java would be accounted for wherever they may be on the island. As such, Articles 13 and 14 of the regulations stipulated the need for the drawing of a register of all native subjects, that would note down their names, addresses, professions and income, and would also monitor their movements in and around Java if they were to migrate to another locality.
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- The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse , pp. 219 - 222Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2016