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A linguistic kaleidoscope of the Malay letter; The case of the eighteenth century official letters from the Sultanate of Buton Suryadi, S.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 16, No. 2
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The Malay letters make up the largest category of documents among the Malay manuscripts preserved at Leiden University Library, the Netherlands. The corpus represents the scope of the territories under Dutch East Indies authority during the colonial era. In fact, they are authentic documents which denote not only political contact between the local kingdoms in the Archipelago (Nusantara) with the Dutch East Indies government in Batavia during colonial times but also constitute an important source for the study of the historical development of the Malay language. This essay looks at the language characters of such letters which came from the court of Buton in Southeast Sulawesi. It aims to sketch the linguistic variety of the classical Malay language represented in its eighteenth century letter-writing tradition. Having specific diction and features that confirm local influences, the language of the letters shows distinctiveness in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax.
The recording industry and "regional" culture in Indonesia; The case of Minangkabau Suryadi, S.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 16, No. 2
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Katinka van Heeren (2012), Contemporary Indonesian film; Spirits of reform and ghosts from the past. Suryadi, S.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 15, No. 2
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The impact of the West Sumatran regional recording industry on Minangkabau oral literature Suryadi, S.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 12, No. 1
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Due to the emergence of what in Indonesian is called industri rekaman daerah 'Indonesian regional recording industries', which has developed significantly since the 1980s, many regional recording companies have been established in Indonesia. As a consequence, more and more aspects of Indonesian regional culture have appeared in commercial recordings. Nowadays commercial cassettes and Video Compact Discs (VCDs) of regional pop and oral literature genres from different ethnic groups are being produced and distributed in provincial and regency towns, even those situated far from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. Considering the extensive mediation and commodification of ethnic cultures in Indonesia, this paper investigates the impact of the rise of a regional recording industry on Minangkabau oral literature in West Sumatra. Focussing on recordings of some Minangkabau traditional verbal art genres on commercial cassettes and VCDs by West Sumatran recording companies, this paper attempts to examine the way in which Minangkabau traditional verbal art performers have engaged with electronic communication, and how this shapes technological and commercial conditions for ethnic art and performance in one modernizing society in regional Indonesia.
Edwin Jurri ns, From monologue to dialogue; Radio and reform in Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2009, vi +190 pp. [Verhandelingen 264.] ISBN 978-90-6718-354-3. Price: EUR 24.90 (soft cover). Suryadi, S.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 12, No. 2
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Klarijn Loven, Watching Si Doel; Television, languages, and cultural identity in contemporary Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2008, ix + 377 hlm. ISBN 978-90-67182-79-6. Harga: EUR 39,90 (soft cover). Suryadi, S.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 11, No. 1
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Sepucuk surat dari seorang bangsawan Gowa di tanah pembuangan (Ceylon) Suryadi, S.
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 10, No. 2
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This paper looks at an early nineteenth-century Malay letter from a land of exile, Ceylon (present Sri Lanka). The letter, written in Colombo, was dated 3 January 1807 and is in Leiden University Library MS Cod.Or.2241-I 25 [Klt 21/no.526]. It was written by Siti Hapipa, the widow of the exiled Sultan Fakhruddin Abdul Khair al-Mansur Baginda Usman Batara Tangkana Gowa, the 26th king of the Gowa Sultanate of South Sulawesi who reigned from 1753 until 1767. He was banished by the Dutch (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) to Ceylon in 1767 on a charge of conspiracy with the British to oppose the VOC trading monopoly in eastern Indonesia. Although many studies of Malay letters exist, letters from the lands of exile like such as the one discussed in this article have received less scholarly attention. Also remarkable is that this is one of the rare eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries Malay letters written by a female. Setting the scene with a historical sketch of the eighteenth and the early nineteenth century in colonial Ceylon and the Netherlands East Indies, this paper provides the transliteration of Siti Hapipa's letter in Roman script, through which I then analyse the socio-economic and political aspects of the family of Sultan Fakhruddin in their exile in Colombo.