The meaning of Rumoh Aceh

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Rumoh Aceh



Rumoh Aceh (Acehnese: "Aceh house") is a type of traditional vernacular house found in the Aceh Province in Indonesia. It is basically a wooden pile dwelling. Rumoh Aceh is also known as krong bade, which may actually refer to the rice granary (krōng, "storage" + padé, "rice") and not the house. Rumoh Aceh is the largest and tallest of all vernacular house type found in the Aceh Province, the others are the Rumoh Santeut and the Rangkang.

The Rumoh Aceh reflects the culture of the Acehnese people. These houses are still found in the periphery of Banda Aceh, although they are on the verge of extinction

Rumoh Aceh is a pile dwelling erected over posts which is rest on flat stones or concrete plinth. It is constructed of timbers, topped with a wooden gabled roof which is covered with either thatched palm leaves or corrugated metal.Rumoh Aceh are found scattered in a traditional kampung (Acehnese: gampong) with no specific pattern; However, they are always aligned with their gables positioned toward the east and west. The exterior can be ornamented with woodcarvings of floral or geometric patterns, usually found in the triangular gables, around the windows and on the boards. The triangular gable decoration consists of an ornamented triangular wooden screen which slant outwards and is perforated to allow cross ventilation. The house is located on the non-gabled (north or south) sides.This entrance is a steep staircases leading to a roofed Front terrace (Acehnese: seulasa, "veranda"). The space below the house is used for storing goods such as timber for construction, firewood, crops, or bicycles; Or for a resting area, with benches.

The house area is marked by perimeter hedges or fences. Occasional trees provide shade into the house's courtyard. The rice granary (Acehnese: krōng padé, "rice storage") is a small rice granary located under or beside the house. Unlike rice granaries in Java, which hold sheaves of rice, rice granaries in Aceh hold unhusked rice.

Wealthier Acehnese may build a wooden gate entrance (Acehnese: keupaleh) at the entrance of the house area.


Rumoh Aceh are made entirely of wood, without nails. Traditionally, the floors are made of feather palm planks, the walls of thin woven bamboo, and the roof of thatched sago palm leaves. The entire construction is erected over pile construction which stands on stones. The ground under the house is compacted and made a bit higher than the area around the house, the soil is prevented from seeping away by edgings around this compacted soil. In the colonial era, the edgings were made of bottles planted into the ground bottom-up.

When a daughter reaches the age of seven, her father will start collecting building materials for the construction of the house where her daughter will live with her future husband. According to Acehnese custom, the girl has to live with her husband in the house of her mother until the first child is born. Afterwards she is allowed to move to her own house, within the compound of her mother. When her parents died, the daughter will acquire the rice fields and her parents' house.

House construction begins with the erection of posts for the tallest sections of the house, and then followed by the shorts of posts for the front and rear sections. [14] Two of the house posts are named the "king post" (Acehnese: tameh raja) and "queen post" (Acehnese: tameh putrou) respectively. Both are located between the middle section and the front section, the "king post" on the right (north) side, the "queen post" on the left (south) side.A little piece of gold is inserted into the "queen post ", Either at the top of the floor binders when mortised through the" queen post "and fixed by the wooden tenon. These posts are set as if they are still at the bottom and crown tip above. The last to be built are the roof plates. Ropes are used to fix the roof plates to the beams in the case of fire. [16] Woodcarving decorations are not part of the construction phase.

Determining the starting time of the construction is a crucial matter in the Acehnese culture. The house owner engages a traditional carpenter in the matter of a month of thought to be the most auspicious to begin construction. Several rituals are carried out during the construction process: the first building is constructed and the third construction is completed. The first ceremony is the sprinkling of raw materials such as uncooked rice and water at the site, completed with a small meal. The second ceremony is a ceremonial meal for the assistants of the carpenter, usually fifteen in number. The third and last ceremony is a big ceremonial feast served for as many people as the owner wants to invite. Acehnese people use traditional units for the house construction. The primary units are the jaroe (finger), paleut (width of the back of the hand), and hah (pinch). Secondary units are the distance between the spread-out thumb and middle finger, lhuek (length of the whole arm), and deupa (fathom).

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