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George Windsor Earl, an english ethnologist |
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The name
Indonesia derives from the Latin and Greek
Indus, and the Greek
nèsos, meaning "island".
The name dates to the 18th century, far predating the formation of independent Indonesia.
In 1850, George Windsor Earl, an English ethnologist, proposed the terms
Indunesians — and, his preference,
Malayunesians — for the inhabitants of the "Indian Archipelago or Malayan Archipelago".
In the same publication, a student of Earl's, James Richardson Logan, used
Indonesia as a synonym for
Indian Archipelago.
However, Dutch academics writing in East Indies publications were reluctant to use
Indonesia. Instead, they used the terms
Malay Archipelago (
Maleische Archipel); the
Netherlands East Indies (
Nederlandsch Oost Indië), popularly
Indië;
the East (
de Oost); and
Insulinde.
After 1900, the name
Indonesia became more common in academic
circles outside the Netherlands, and Indonesian nationalist groups
adopted it for political expression.
Adolf Bastian, of the University of Berlin, popularized the name through his book
Indonesien oder die Inseln des Malayischen Archipels, 1884–1894. The first Indonesian scholar to use the name was Suwardi Suryadiningrat (Ki Hajar Dewantara), when he established a press bureau in the Netherlands with the name
Indonesisch Pers-bureau in 1913.
source : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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