Origin of State Name Indonesia.

In ancient times , the islands of the country called by various names . In the records of the Chinese nation homeland archipelago named Nan-hai (South Sea Islands). Various ancient records Indoa named this archipelago nation Dwipantara ( Islands Overseas Territories ) , the name derived from the Sanskrit word dwipa ( island ) and between ( outside , opposite ) . Poet Valmiki Ramayana tells the search for Sita , Ravana kidnapped Rama's wife , up to Suwarnadwipa ( Golden Island , which is now Sumatra ) located in Dwipantara Islands .
The Arabs call our homeland Jaza'ir al - Jawi ( Javanese Islands ) . Latin name for frankincense is benzoe, derived from the Arabic luban ox (frankincense of Java), because the Arab traders obtain frankincense from sumatrana Styrax trees that used to only grow in Sumatra . To this day we are still pilgrims frequently called " Java " by the Arabs . Even though Indonesia outside Java . In Arabic , also known Samathrah ( Sumatra ) , Sholibis ( Sulawesi ) , Sundah ( Sunda ) , all of the island known as Jawi kulluh ( all Java ) .
The Europeans who first came assumes that Asia consists of Arabic , Persian , Indian and Chinese . For them , the area stretching between Persia and China all are " Indies " . South Asian peninsula they call " Indian face " and mainland Southeast Asia was named " Rear Indies " . Meanwhile, the country gained the name " Indian Archipelago " ( Indische Archipel , Indian Archipelago , l' Archipel Indien ) or " East Indies " ( Oost Indie , East Indies , Indes Orientales ) . Another name used is " Malay Archipelago " ( Maleische Archipel , Malay Archipelago , l' Archipel Malais ) .
In the Dutch colonial era , the official name used is Nederlandsch - Indie ( Dutch East Indies ) , while the Japanese occupation 1942-1945 used the term To- Indo ( East Indies ) .
Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820 - 1887) , known by the pseudonym Multatuli , never proposed a specific name for the islands mention our homeland, namely Insulinde, which also means " Indian Archipelago " (Latin insula, meaning island ) . Insulinde name is less popular .

Indonesia

In 1847 in Singapore published an annual scholarly journal , the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia ( JIAEA ) , which is managed by James Richardson Logan ( 1819-1869 ) , a Scotsman who earned a law degree from the University of Edinburgh . Then in 1849 a nation Britain ethnologist George Samuel Windsor Earl ( 1813-1865 ) , incorporating itself as a magazine editor JIAEA .

In JIAEA 1850 Volume IV , pages 66-74 , Earl wrote an article On the Leading Characteristics of the Papuan , Australian and Malay - Polynesian Nations . In the article confirms that Earl has come for the people of the Malay Archipelago Indian Archipelago or to have a unique name (a distinctive name) , because it is not appropriate Indian name and is often confused with another mention of India . Earl propose two options name : Indunesia or Malayunesia ( nesos in Greek means island ) . On page 71 an article was written :
" ... The inhabitants of the Indian Archipelago or Malayan Archipelago would Become respectively Indunesians or Malayunesians " .
Earl has said choosing the name Malayunesia ( Malay Archipelago ) than Indunesia ( Indian Islands ) , because Malayunesia very appropriate for the Malay race , while Indunesia can also be used to Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) and the Maldives . Earl also argued that the Malay language spoken throughout the islands . In writing that Earl did not use the term Malayunesia and Indunesia term wear .
In Volume IV JIAEA it also , pages 252-347 , James Richardson Logan wrote the article The Ethnology of the Indian Archipelago . In early writings , Logan also expressed the need for a distinctive name for the islands of our country , because the term " Indian Archipelago " is too long and confusing . Logan picked up the discarded Indunesia name Earl , and the replacement of the letter U with letter o that his words better . Thus was born the term Indonesia . For the first time Indonesian word appearing in the world with 254 pages printed on the paper Logan :
" Mr . Earl Suggests Indunesian the Ethnographical term , but rejects it in favor of Malayunesian . I prefer the purely geographical term Indonesia , the which is merely a shorter Synonym for the Indian Islands or the Indian Archipelago " .
When proposing the name " Indonesia " Logan does not seem to realize that in the future it will be the name of the official name . Since then Logan has consistently used the name " Indonesia " in his scientific writings , and the use of this term is slowly spreading among scientists fields of ethnology and geography .
In 1884 a professor of ethnology at the University of Berlin named Adolf Bastian ( 1826-1905 ) published a book Rodel oder die Inseln des Malayischen Archipel five volumes , containing the results of his research when it wanders into the country in 1864 until 1880. Bastian is this book that popularized the term
" Indonesian " among Dutch scholars , so that could arise contention that the term " Indonesia " Bastian 's creation . Opinion is not true that , among others listed in the Encyclopedie van Nederlandsch - Indie 1918 . Though Bastian took the term " Indonesia " was from the writings of Logan . Natives who first used the term " Indonesia " is suwardi Suryaningrat ( Ki Hajar Dewantara ) . When banished to the Netherlands in 1913 , he set up a news agency with the name Indonesische Pers-bureau . Name Indonesisch ( Indonesia ) was also introduced as a replacement indisch ( Indian ) by prof . Cornelis van Vollenhoven ( 1917) . Correspondingly, inlander (native) replaced with Indonesier (Indonesian people).
Identity Politics.
In the 1920s , the name "Indonesia " which is a scientific term in ethnology and geography were taken over by the leaders of the independence movement of our country , thus the name " Indonesia " finally has a political meaning , namely the identity of a nation fighting for independence . As a result the Dutch government began to be suspicious and wary of the use of the word creation Logan .
In 1922 at the initiative of Mohammad Hatta , a student Handels Hoogeschool ( School of Economics ) in Rotterdam , students and student organizations in the Netherlands East Indies ( which was formed in 1908 with the name of the Indische Vereeniging Vereeniging Indonesische changed its name or Perhimpoenan Indonesia . Their magazine , Indian Poetra , renamed independent Indonesia .
Bung Hatta emphasized in his writings :
"Indonesia Merdeka future ( de Vrije Indonesische toekomstige staat ) impossible -called " Dutch East Indies " . Nor does " Indian " only, because it can lead to mistakes by the Indian original . For us the name of Indonesia declared a political goal ( een Politiek doel ) , because it symbolizes and aspire to a homeland in the future , and to realize each of Indonesia ( Indonesier ) will strive with all the power and ability . "
In the homeland , Dr . Sutomo establish Indonesische Study Club in 1924 ) . In 1925 , Jong Islamieten Bond formed scouting Nationaal Indonesische Padvinderij ( Natipij ) . That's the three organizations in the country that first used the name "Indonesia " . Finally the name " Indonesia " was crowned as the name of homeland , nation and language in the density - Pemoedi Pemoeda Indonesia on October 28, 1928 , which is now known as the Youth Pledge .
In August 1939 three members of the Volksraad ( People's Council ; Dutch parliament ) , Muhammad Husni Thamrin , Wiwoho Purbohadidjojo and Sutardjo Kartohadikusumo , filed a motion to the Dutch government that the name " Indonesia " was unveiled as a substitute for the name " Nederlandsch - Indie " . But Dutch reject this motion . With the fall of ground water into the hands of Japan on March 8, 1942 , gone are the name " Dutch East Indies ". And after it was born the nation of Indonesia.
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