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The Impact of Balai Pustaka on Modern Indonesian Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. Teeuw
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The story of Balai Pustaka begins in 1908, a memorable year in the history of modern Indonesia, for that was the year in which Boedi Oetomo, the first nationalist organization in Indonesia, was founded. In the same year the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies set up a Commissie voor de Volkslectuur, a Committee for Popular Literature. And even though there was no visible connexion between the founding of Boedi Oetomo and the setting up of this Committee, there certainly was an indirect link. Both the foundation of Boedi Oetomo and the need for an institution for popular literature had something to do with the expansion of modern education in the colony.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 1972 , pp. 111 - 127
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1972

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