Rencong

Rencong Aceh

Rencong (Reuncong) is once of traditional weapon from Indonesia, aceh. Rencong has used as a symbol of courage of the fighters and the people of Aceh in the struggle. Rencong also used as weapons for defense that is now changed into a traditional weapon (as a garnish in traditional dress of aceh).

Aceh rencong form adopted many forms of weapons from the Arabs. Forms rencong also began to follow its development, particularly Turkey and the subcontinent India. The handle-shaped rencong straight. and some are curved upwards. Rencong with the handle curved upwards called rencong Meucungkek, usually handles are made from ivory and horn. 
Rencong have a degree level in the people of Aceh. For a King/ Sultan and the Queen/ Sulthanah scabbard dagger made from ivory and stiletto made from gold. while the ordinary people make scabbard their from buffalo horn or wood, and stiletto made rom brass or white metal, according to the economic capacity of themselves. 
Aceh as an important military power in the Malay region. Rencong also has similarities with the blade that is used by Turkish soldiers in the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Mahmud's empire, and also from some mughal scimitar with style rapiers and daggers (Caucasian language), which depends hanging from a belt hanging walled, in Madras, India in 1610-1620. Examples of these weapons can be seen in the illustration of books in both Dutch colonial wars produced by the Documentation and Data Centre in Aceh 1977.