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It might be a bit of an exaggeration if I said I was “shocked" when I bumped into historical facts about the position of "our language".
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Fachry Ali
It might be a bit of an exaggeration if I said I was “shocked" when I bumped into historical facts about the position of "our language".
In Writing from the Colonial Margin: The Letters of Aboe Bakar Djajadiningrat to Christian Snouck Hurgronje (Journal of Indonesia and the Malay World, November 2003), Michael F. Laffan revealed a historical fact on the correspondence between Aboe Bakar Djajadiningrat (who lived in Hijaz, now Saudi Arabia) and intellectual-colonialist Snouck Hurgronje at the end of the 19th century.