Etimologi Indonesian

The word "Indonesia" is derived from the ancient Greek that is Indos meaning "the Indian" and nesos "island". Thus, the Indonesian word meaning Indies islands, or archipelago located in the Indian, which indicates that the name is formed long before Indonesia became a sovereign state.
In 1850, George Windsor Earl, a British ethnologist, originally proposed the term Indunesia and Malayunesia for residents "Indian Islands or the Malay Archipelago". Pupils from Earl, James
Richardson Logan, used Indonesia as a synonym of the word India.Namun Islands, Dutch academics writing in media Indies did not use the word Indonesia, but the terms Malay Archipelago (Maleische Archipel); Dutch East Indies (Nederlandsch Oost Indië), or Indies (Indië); East (de Oost); and even Insulinde (this term was introduced in 1860 in the novel Max Havelaar (1859), written by Multatuli, the criticism of Dutch colonialism).

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

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