Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Indonesia's Etimology

Etymology

History of the name of Indonesia word "Indonesia" comes from the Latin word in the Indus, which means "India" and the word in Greek nesos which means "island". So, said the Indonesian archipelago means that the Indian territory, or island, which is located in India , Which shows that the name was established long before India became independent countries. In 1850, George Earl, a ethnologue A British, originally proposed the term Indunesia and Malayunesia to the population "Islands of India or the Malay Archipelago." Students from Earl, James Richardson Logan, using the word as a synonym of the Islands of India. However, academic writing in the Dutch East Indies Dutch media did not use the word Indonesia, but the term Malay Archipelago (Maleische Archipel); Dutch East Indies (Nederlandsch Oost A), or India (A); East (de Oost), and even Insulinde (a term introduced this year by the 1860 novel Max Havelaar (1859), written by Multatuli, the criticism against Dutch colonialism).

Since the year 1900, the name became more common in academic circles outside the Netherlands, Indonesia and nationalist groups to use for political expression. Adolf Bastian from the University of Berlin popularize the name of this book through Indonésien oder die Inseln des Malayischen Archipels, 1884-1894. Indonesian students first mengunakannya is Suwardi Suryaningrat (Ki Hajar Dewantara), when he established the news agency in the Netherlands named Indonesisch-Press Bureau in the year 1913.

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