Bouw (unit)

Bouw or Bahoe was a measure of area in the Dutch East Indies and was used as a field measure.

• 1 bouw = 7.0965 square meters
• 4 Bouw = 1 Jonke
• 1 Jonke = 2.839 hectares

literature

• Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit lexicon: formulas and terms from physics, chemistry and technology. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-32292-920-4 , p. 199.
• Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 41.