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Kenji Tsuchiya1992 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 113-191
Published: September 30, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis article deals with the Almanak Melajoe published in Indonesia during the period of Dutch colonial rule. From the latter half of the nineteenth century various kinds of almanacs were published in the large colonial cities. These were widely circulated all over the country with the development of colonial bureaucracy and the spread of publishing firms. As far as I know, there were three main Almanak Melajoe, almanacs written in the Malay language of those days. One was published by Albrecht, Batavia; one by the government-sponsored Balai Poestaka, Batavia; and one by Buning, Yogyakarta.
Of these three, the Almanak Melajoe published by Buning is the most interesting, since it portrays vividly the events that occurred in Yogyakarta each year. These events are narrated in the style of syair, traditional Malay verse, and were mostly composed by Tan Tjook San, a Peranakan about whom we know very little. He edited the Almanak and composed the syair during the years between 1889 and 1904. The subjects of the syair vary from the proliferation of bandits in the city to the official visit of King Chulalongkorn to Yogyakarta in 1897,and the spread of opium firms across the country.
The first chapter of this article discusses the outline of the almanacs. The second chapter describes the first two Almanak Melajoe, published by Albrecht and Balai Poestaka, focusing mainly on their readership and usage. Chapters three and four mainly discuss the Almanak Melajoe published by Buning. Chapter three outlines the Almanak from the perspective of its readership and the publisher's strategy for increasing subscriptions. The final chapter describes in particular the syair appearing in the Almanak. These have never been considered by those students of the social history of Indonesia. By examining these syair, a fuller picture can be obtained of colonial society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.View full abstractDownload PDF (5461K) -
Yoshihiro Tsubouchi1992 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 192-212
Published: September 30, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe Malay village of Galok in Kelantan was revisited from September to November, 1991 to investigate the changes in the population and households in the 20 years since the first intensive community study was conducted there in 1970/71. Major economic activities in 1970/71 were paddy cultivation in rain-fed fields, small scale rubber tapping, and newly introduced tobbacco cultivation. The village's population increased from 690 in 1971 to 1,100 in 1991, and the number of the households from 145 to 211. Despite the increase in population and households, the households cultivating paddy decreased from 71 to 36, those tapping rubber from 94 to 53, and those growing tobbacco from 124 to 40, while regular employment, irregular wage labor in the surrounding areas, and temporary migratory work in Singapore increased remarkably. Many people moved out of the village and many others moved in. Though the former exceed the latter in number, the village population is still increasing owing to the high fertility, represented by a TFR of 4.860 of 1972-1991. The total number of original residents from 1971, their married-in spouses, and their direct decendants born after 1971 and staying in the village, however, is smaller than the 1971 population, which means that immigrating households contributed greatly to the growth of the village population. Most of these were either returning relatives of Galok residents or migrating households from less conveniently situated surrounding villages. Thus, movements are occurring in opposite directions at the same time.
The kin composition of households was purer in 1991 than 1971 in terms of kin relations, in that they included fewer adopted children and temporary co-residents. More extended family households have been organized through coresidence of aged parents or newlyweds in newly rebuilt, more permanent dwellings.View full abstractDownload PDF (1571K) -
Yukio Ikemoto1992 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 213-235
Published: September 30, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
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Kunio Yoshihara1992 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 236-237
Published: September 30, 1992
Released on J-STAGE: February 28, 2018
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