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History of Indonesian people who lived in the Netherlands during 1600-1950.
This study presents the text and first English translation of a book published in Batak in 1941 by the novelist and newspaperman M.J. Soetan Hasoendoetan. Based on a Sumatran turi-turian or chanted epic of Datuk Tuongku, it gave southern Batak readers a great literary epic of their own to claim within Indies literatures.
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Buku ini merupakan kumpulan tulisan dari sejumlah peneliti dan penulis dengan latar belakang disiplin keilmuan yang beragam yang mencoba meneroka keindonesiaan dari sudut pandang kemelayuan. Melayu dalam konteks buku ini lebih dipahami sebagai sebuah kelompok bangsa penutur bahasa Austronesia yang persebarannya sangat luas, yang mendiami di hampir seluruh kawasan Asia Tenggara, bahkan hingga Fiji dan Hawai. Dengan merujuk pada pengertian tersebut, tulisan-tulisan di buku ini tidak hendak memasuki medan perdebatan untuk menguji seberapa valid kebenaran pengertian tersebut, namun justru hendak menjelajahi sejauhmana ia termanifestasikan dalam bentangan sejarah Indonesia modern. Sebagai buku ya...
The expansion of Christianity is often described from the viewpoint of the western missionaries. This book, however, focuses on the large group of indigenous teachers and their pupils at the mission schools in Batakland. These educational activities in fact provided the most important incentive for the birth and growth of the Lutheran Batak Church since 1860. With 3 million members this is the largest protestant church in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian country with 190 million inhabitants, 85% of whom are Muslim. The study is based on archival sources in German, Dutch, Indonesian and Batak, as well as on interviews with local teachers. This is an important case-study about the place of education within the missionary enterprise, the cooperation and conflicts between foreign missionaries and their indigenous helpers, the delicate relation between the Dutch colonial government and a German mission board.
History of Christians and Muslims in Indonesia.