History of Indonesia Inventor Name

Who was the inventor of the name of the State of Indonesia? What is meant by Indonesia is a country that lies between the continents of Asia and Australia, is a country that is geographically located between 95 ° -141 ° East longitude and latitude 6 ° north to 11 south latitude. From the study of the history, the name Indonesia was found by James Richardson Logan and George Samuel Windson Earl. Earl suggested the name of Indonesia in his "Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia" volume IV of 1850. Earl had two candidates names are Indunesia or Malayunesia. He himself chose the name because the name Malayunesia is very appropriate for the Malay race, while Indinesia scope too broad. But Lodan have a different opinion. She liked to wear Indunesia name, because the name is more synonymous to Indian Island or Indian Archipalego. In the course of the letter "U" replaced the letter "O", so as to be Indonesian.

Then what about the role of Adolf Bastian? People who care for and introduce the name of Indonesia to the world? History speaks that Bastian is known Just take care and popularize it. Bastian is a physician and anthropologist at the same time. He is a professor of ethnology at the University of Berlin. In his day, Sabastian is a scientist reliable. Known and recognized by other scientists. It was he who led ethnologists and anthropologists to be recognized as one of the branches of science. Many of the treasures collected by Bastian was used to study anthropology. But the most popular is the two books are, namely Rodel Oder Die Inseln December Malayischen Archipels published five books, and books Volkev Die des Ostl Asien.

He uses the name in 1884 in a scientific essay entitled Rodel Oder Die Inseln December Malayischen Archipels. Since then the name of Indonesia, more popularly used to refer to the region which is also known as the Dutch East Indies. Then an expert Indigenous named C. van Vollenhoven always use Indonesier name to replace the name in his essay entitled Inlander Adatrecht van Het Nederlands-Indie. Natives who first used the term "Indonesia" is suwardi Suryaningrat or better known as Ki Hajar Dewantara. When banished to the Netherlands in 1913 he established a press bureau under the name Indonesische Pers-bureau. Indonesisch name (Indonesia) was also introduced as a substitute indisch (Indian) by Prof. Cornelis van Vollenhoven (1917). Correspondingly, inlander (native) replaced with Indonesier (Indonesian people).

The name Indonesia derives from the Greek. From the Indo and Nesos. Indo mean India or Indian, while Nesos meaning islands. Thus the meaning of the name is the Indian Archipelago Indonesia or India. According to Earl, the main reason for using the word Nesos was because he suspected word Nusa very similar to the word which also means Nesos island or islands in the Malay language Austronesian, has probably as old age. Nesos word similar to the word Nusa and the same age.

While Logan and then follow the trail Earl Adolf Bastian Indonesian use the word apparently because it supports the idea of ​​aging and Nesos the Nusa. Politically, Indonesia for the first time the term is used by the Indonesian Association, the organization founded by Indonesian students in the Netherlands in 1908. The organization was first named Indische Vereeniging. Later the name was changed to Indonesische Vereeniging in 1922. Subsequently in 1922 the Association changed its name also Indonesia.

1928 Second Youth Congress in Jakarta Indonesia uses the term in relation to national unity. The Youth Congress on October 28, 1928 produced the Youth Pledge in which listed the name of Indonesia. Indonesian term is officially used as the name of our country on August 17, 1945 with the proclamation of Indonesian independence.