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Minangkabau, Background of the main pioneers of modern standard Malay in Indonesia

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Année 1976 12 pp. 77-93
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MINANGKABAU, BACKGROUND OF THE MAIN PIONEERS OF MODERN STANDARD MALAY IN INDONESIA

by KHAIDIR ANWAR

1. The Minangkabau Negari Community

The introduction of western type education in Indonesia, particularly in Sumatra, by the Dutch colonial government was the most important factor which made the creation of the modern standard Malay language in Indonesia possible. The government's publishing house Balai Pustaka was instrumental in making books written in indigenous languages such as Javanese, Sundanese and Malay available for the small newly-emerging reading public. The native school teachers and authors who contributed significantly to the emergence of the standardized Malay language in which most of the books were written were derived mainly from the Minangkabau ethnic group. (*) The Minangkabau language is a variety of Malay language and modern Malay that these school teachers and authors helped to create has been known as Balai Pustaka Malay, the basis of the future Bahasa Indonesia. It has been said that the Minangkabau language is a dialect of Malay. However, it can also be argued that the so-called Balai

Professor A. Teeuw wrote : "One can go further and say that it was this very group of Minangkabau schoolteachers at Balai Pustaka who made a significant contribution to the standardization of Malay in the pre-war period — so much so that this brand of Malay is often called Balai Pustaka Malay; it is the basis from which present-day Bahasa Indonesia is developed."

Teeuw, A. : "The Impact of Balai Pustaka On Modern Indonesian Literature", in Bulletin of S.O.A.S., Volume XXXV, 1972, p. 119.

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