Profiles of Malay Culture: Historiography, Religion and Politics PDF
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576 N I H>fSÄOS) r L L - S 7 PROFILES OF MALAY CULTURE HISTORIOGRAPHY, RELIGION AND POLITICS Editor Sartono Kartodirdjo YCOR <« I? I MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF CULTURE 1976 S T] . - Kata Pengantar Proyek Inventarisasi dan Dokumentasi Kebudayaan Nasional yang mulai dilaksanakan tahun 1972, bertujuan untuk menyelamatkan, meme- lihara dan mengembangkan warisan budaya. Kegiatan yang dilakukan adalah penggalian, penerbitan dan pengembangan seni budaya, terutama yang sedang mengalami proses menghilang atau punah. Sasaran yang hendak dicapai tahun 1973 adalah penyusunan doku- mentasi : katalogus naskah Antropologi Indonesia-Kitab Babad-Arca Pe- runggu Museum Pusat, Monografi, Kepurbakalaan, Musik Bambu Indonesia, Seni Musik dan Tari, Bahasa dan Sastra, Wayang Purwa dan seni budaya lainnya serta Kebudayaan Melayu. Dengan telah selesainya penyusunan dokumentasi Studi Kebudayaan Melayu berjudul : MALAY" CULTURE, suatu himpunan karangan Sejarah dan Budaya berbahasa Inggeris, pemimpin proyek mengucapkan terima kasih pada Team dan semua pihak yang membantu penyusunan dokumen- tasi tersebut. Mudah-mudahan dengan adanya dokumentasi ini dapat bermanfaat bagi pembinaan dan pengembangan seni budaya dalam rangka mempertebal kepribadian bangsa, kebanggaan nasional dan kesatuan nasional Proyek Inventarisasi dan Dokumentasi Kebu- dayaan Nasional, Direktorat Jendral Kebuda- yaan, Departemen P dan K. iii P R E F A C E The present volume unites in some cases the papers presented to three successive Conferences of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA). There is no intention to try for completeness; it is with regret that we found ourselves unable to include other papers dealing with the history of Southeast Asia. Since the funds for this publication are rather limited, we have taken the liberty to select a small part of the papers pre- sented at the Vlth IAHA Conference in Yogyakarta in 1974. Special at- tention is given to historiography, religion and politics, three main aspects of Malay Culture. Malay Culture is to be considered as an amalgamation of Great Traditions which came to the Malay realm and Little Traditions of the local peoples, giving birth in the course of time to a new autonomous culture. Its worldview, beliefsystems and processes of political development will give some glimpses of its essential spirit. In order to present this pu- blication as a coherent whole and to expand some themes with an important bearing on Indonesian history, we have included some papers presented in previous IAHA Conferences, i.e. the IVth in Kuala Lumpur in 1968, and the Vth in Manila in 1971. The main reason for this expansion is that this volume will be mainly distributed in Indonesia itself. The papers remain in tact, both their content and 'their set-up. We must apologize for the way in which we had to take liberties with the papers in making small changes in some technical matters of writing. The inordinate delay of the publication of these papers calls for a word of explanation. As a rule the Committee of the IAHA Conference is not committed to follow it up with the publication of the papers. Thanks to the Directorate General of Culture of the Ministry of Education of In- donesia, funds were made available to publish some papers having mainly bearing on Malay Culture. We welcomed the opportunity to publish the papers, since they could be communicated to all those who could not participate in the Conference. We are convinced that this volume forms a very valuable contribution to the study of Malay Culture and will receive appreciation as such from the community of scholars interested in the Malay peoples, their Culture and History. These studies may help us to understand better the impact and function of Malay Culture in contemporary life in the Southeast Asia region. We wish to conclude by expressing our gratitude to the scholars who contributed to this volume and also to the Team for the Documen- tation and Inventarization of National Culture, especially its Malay Culture Section under Mr. Alip Soebagjo for the support lent us in publishing this volume. Our thanks also go to Mr. Soeri Soeroto and Mr. Soetjipto for their assistance in proofreading and other editorial work. Yogyakarta, August 1976 Sartono Kartodirdjo v 1 i I
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