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The ‘Greater Indonesia’ Idea of Nationalism in Malaya and Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Angus Mcintyre
Affiliation:
The University of Sydney

Extract

Nationalism postulates the existence of a people and declares its right to take over an old state organization or establish a new one. A nationalist movement attempts to do this in the name of the people so postulated. Usually, the leaders of such movements come from the centre, or more precisely, the large urban areas of the envisaged state.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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4 This is an apt characterization because the term ‘pan’ connotes the idea of the desirability of the unification of a geographic area, linguistic group, nation, race or religion, without suggesting that any one of the parts to be unified should enjoy primacy over the others. See Kazemzadeh, F., ‘Pan Movements’ in Sills, David L. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (The Free Press, 1968), 11, p. 365.Google Scholar

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25 For example, this notion of the Indonesian people is implicit in Sukarno's statement before a Dutch colonial court in 1930 that: …my voice is being listened to … by the people whom I serve. It is reverberating from Kota Radja to Fak-Fak, from Ulu Siau near Menado to Timor. The Indonesian people who listen to my voice, feel as if they are listening to their own voices. Indonesia Menggugat (Djakarta: Teragung, n.d.), p. 195.Google Scholar The italics are in the original. The places mentioned above were all within the boundaries of the Netherlands Indies, with the exception of the Portuguese half of Timor.

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