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Tak ada kata lain, selain ini adalah penghargaan yang fenomenal! Lekuk-lekuk gambarnya tidak menunjukkan apa-apa selain bahwa ia muncul karena wangsit dari langit. Dari sudut pandang apapun, tak akan ada yang menyangkal bahwa ia terwujud atas tuntunan keabadian. Bentuk-bentuk dan simbol-simbolnya memiliki makna tertentu yang hanya bisa dipahami oleh mereka yang hatinya bersih dari segala [...]

The coffee plant, native to Ethiopia, was introduced to the mountainous southwestern region of the Arabian Peninsula around the fourteenth century. Coffee bushes and the habit of drinking coffee were not introduced into Indonesia by Arabs but by the VOC in 1696. Dutch men with personal interests in botany and agriculture and who owned private [...]

Willem van Hogendorp was a founding member of the academy, a senior VOC official, and a successful businessman. He spent the years 1774 to 1784 in Java. The academy gave him a reason for pursuing his intellectual interests and a means of disseminating them through its journal. He drew on Batavia’s archives to write histories [...]

Printing was an ancient invention of the Chinese. Europeans made the press a major tool of intellectual life with the advantages of a twenty-six-letter alphabet and a measure of freedom in some western European cities. Within four decades of printing the Gutenberg Bible in Mainz in 1455, printing was introduced into Islamic lands by Jews [...]

The term Dayak covers many distinct speech groups in Kalimantan. Today it has the meaning of people living away from the coast, and includes nomadic groups, shifting cultivators, and settled peoples. The term is associated with tribal warfare, male fertility cults, tattooing, head hunting, and long houses where several families live together. Dayak has a [...]

Slamet’s journey began in slavery. A Balinese slaver delivered him to Semarang where he became the employee of senior VOC merchant, Willem Dubbeldekop. In the port city world of north Java, the Hindu Balinese   converted   to   Islam   and   took   the   Muslim   Javanese   name   of Slamet. After Dubbeldekop emancipated him, Slamet set up in trade on [...]

Chinese temples in Jakarta date from around 1650. Most are rectangular, multiroofed buildings set within a walled compound. Temples   contain   a   main   altar   and   image,   and   side   annexes   for   subsidiary deities. Wall panels inscribed in Chinese characters preserve the name   of   the   temple   god,   and   the   date   and   names   of   donors.   Some temples   were   open   [...]

Australia’s   northern   shores   formed   the   southern   boundary   of   Indonesian   waters   for   sailors   from   Sulawesi.   They   were   hunting ground and worksite for Makasar and Bugis men, who fished for trepang which was in demand in Chinese markets. They secured use rights from Aboriginal communities by giving titles and flags to local chiefs and gifts of tobacco [...]

In 1743 Pakubuwono II (r. 1726–1749) rid himself of problems in Mataram’s eastern provinces by transferring Surapati’s former lands to the   Dutch. Rebel bands used east Java as a place of retreat; Balinese princes still considered it as tributary territory to their kingdoms in Bali. The VOC could defeat Indonesian armies, but it could not [...]