temenggong

temenggong

▪ Malayan official
      in the traditional Malay states, an official who was responsible for maintaining law and order and for commanding the police and army. This important nonhereditary position became delineated during the development of the 15th-century Malaccan state, which emerged as an intermediate point in the trade between India, China, and Southeast Asia.

      The temenggong was instrumental in maintaining the peaceful domestic conditions that were a prerequisite for the Malaccan state's prosperous commerce. His duties included keeping the peace, caring for criminals, building jails, patrolling city streets, and assuring the accuracy of weights and measures in the marketplace. In Malacca the temenggong occupied a seat in the all-important inner Council of Four and ranked second only to the bendahara, or chief minister, of whose family he usually was a member. Although Malacca's greatness waned after the 15th century, its administrative structure, including the office of temenggong, was adopted by other Malay states, where it flourished and survived into the 19th century.

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