The Lebak Regency is the Regency where Eduard Douwes Dekker (Multatuli) was appointed in 1856 assistant resident.
Dekker left Holland, and went to live in Ingelheim am Rhein near Mainz, where he made several attempts to write for the stage.
When he was 15, he was inspired to translate Saijah and Adinda (a poem), a part of Max Havelaar by Multatuli, from Dutch to Batak which was his mother tongue even though his Dutch was limited for this kind of literature.