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Mahyuddin Datuk Sutan Maharadja

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newspapers in Sumatra, which had been founded a decade earlier. He helped develop it from a rudimentary publication reporting on auctions and advertisements into a forum for intellectuals (mostly schoolteachers and government officials) to have public debates. In its pages he became a vocal defender
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figures and accused them of ingratitude towards the Dutch. Because of this, many of the young Western-educated Minangkabau intellectuals turned against him or lost interest in him. He remained on Padang city council during and after the war, until at least 1918.
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against the Padri side and eventually their family came to be incorporated into the Dutch political system as they conquered Sumatra. His father, Datuk Bandharo, was a Dutch-appointed leader in Sulit Air. His personal name was Mahyuddin (or Mahjoeddin in the
99:(hereditary leader) he was referred to by his full title Mahyuddin Datuk Sutan Maharadja. Due to his family's closeness with the Dutch, he was one of the first Minangkabau to receive a Western education, and in 1873 was sent to study in a European school in 103:, West Sumatra. However, Mahyuddin and the few other native students were involved in a fight with a Dutch student and were expelled before graduating. After that, through his father's connection he was sent to be the assistant of a public prosecutor ( 327:
He spent his final years from 1918 to 1921 researching and writing about Minangkabau history in an attempt to steer the progressive movement towards embracing local tradition and rejecting European, Middle Eastern, or Javanese influence.
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in Java and a rising anti-Chinese and anti-Arab sentiment among native Indies Muslims, he often published very negative articles about those groups in the pages of his papers. As time went on, and
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attracted a new round of investors; he was made editor-in-chief with a new team of assistant editors and the cost of the paper rose due to its longer format.
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Abdullah, Taufik (2007). "Modernization in the Minangkabau World: West Sumatra in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century". In Holt, Claire (ed.).
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and began to participate in their lodges. He was promoted again in 1883 and sent to work in Padang. After, in 1888 he was finally promoted to full
61:. He is considered to be one of the fathers of modern Indonesian journalism and was a key figure in West Sumatran politics from the 1890s to 1921. 687: 86:) in around 1860. (Various sources gives his birth year as 27 November in either 1858, 1860, or 1862.) His grandfather had fought in the 172: 238: 213:(light of Sumatra), a Dutch-funded Malay newspaper. During his time there he was greatly influenced by world politics, including the 462: 408: 171:
against modernizing Muslims who wanted to abolish it and follow Middle Eastern Islam more closely. He also fell afoul of the strict
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In 1879 he became a salaried clerk in the public prosecutor's office and in 1882 was promoted to be a deputy public prosecutor (
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It was at around this time that he devoted himself more completely to literary and intellectual pursuits. He became editor of
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and other organizations became vocally anti-Dutch, he turned against them as well. He became bitter rivals of
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which had roughly 80 members; he was also advisor to other clubs, and founded one in Pariaman called
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and sentence to one month's imprisonment for printing content deemed defamatory of local officials.
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quickly soured, and in 1913 they left his print shop and he founded a new publication
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Java-bode : nieuws, handels- en advertentieblad voor Nederlandsch-Indie
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He died in Kasang, just north of Padang, of a heart ailment in June 1921.
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The Vernacular Press and the Emergence of Modern Indonesian Consciousness
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Mahyuddin was born into an aristocratic Minangkabau family in Sulit Air,
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journalist, intellectual, activist and newspaper editor active in the
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Adam, Ahmat (2018). "7. The Vernacular Press in the Outer Islands".
278:(an Islamic modernist publication led by his son-in-law), and later 237: 18: 403:(1st Equinox ed.). Jakarta: Equinox Pub. pp. 179–245. 168: 23:
Mahyuddin Datuk Sutan Maharaja, date unknown (19th. century)
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Dutch East Indies Minangkabau intellectual and journalist
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Padang - Hilligöo en Pasar Ambatjang., KITLV 1404217
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In 1910 he was appointed to the municipal council (
284:, a paper aimed at a female readership edited by 111:) in Padang. While working there he studied law. 640:(in Dutch). Padang. 4 September 1918. p. 6. 562:"Telegrammen aan de Locomotief. Batavia, 29 Mei" 394: 392: 390: 388: 386: 384: 382: 380: 378: 376: 374: 372: 370: 368: 366: 364: 532:(in Dutch). Batavia . 13 March 1893. p. 1. 362: 360: 358: 356: 354: 352: 350: 348: 346: 344: 188:and became editor of another paper in Padang, 568:(in Dutch). Semarang. 29 May 1896. p. 3. 550:(in Dutch). Batavia . 1 June 1893. p. 2. 8: 683:Newspaper editors from the Dutch East Indies 496:(in Dutch). Padang. 23 June 1921. p. 6. 586:(in Dutch). Padang. 8 July 1899. p. 5. 584:Sumatra-courant: nieuws- en advertentieblad 438: 436: 434: 432: 430: 428: 426: 424: 422: 420: 175:; within the first year he was fined 100 634:"Van hier en daar. Gemeenteraadszitting" 340: 673:Journalists from the Dutch East Indies 580:"Olla Podrida. Mijnheer de Redacteur!" 514:(in Dutch). Semarang. 20 January 1883. 319:and Abdoel Rivai and other such early 227:(young group), a term popularized by 7: 254:) in Padang. That same year he left 95:) but tradition dictated that, as a 693:Lawyers from the Dutch East Indies 622:(in Dutch). Semarang. 9 June 1910. 43:Mahjoeddin Datoek Soetan Maharadja 14: 604:(in Dutch). Bandung. 7 June 1910. 401:Culture and politics in Indonesia 490:"Van hier en daar. Een voorman" 260:and founded his own newspaper, 207:In 1904 he became an editor at 137:status and was sent to work in 28:Mahyuddin Datuk Sutan Maharadja 1: 688:Indonesian National Awakening 51:Mahyuddin Datuak Sutan Marajo 39:Van Ophuijsen Spelling System 31: 290: 274: 709: 307:In 1914, with the rise of 616:"Gemeenteraad van Padang" 455:10.7591/9781501719035-009 182:In 1895 he resigned from 82:, Dutch East Indies (now 288:. 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Van Ophuijsen Spelling System
Minangkabau
Minangkabau
Dutch East Indies
Solok Regency
West Sumatra
Indonesia
Padri War
spelling of the time
Penghulu
Padang
Malay
Dutch
Sufism
Pariaman
Malay language
Adat
Dutch censorship laws
Guilder
Russo-Japanese War
Young Turk Revolution
Abdoel Rivai
Pan-Asianism

Dutch
Oetoesan Melajoe
Soenting Melajoe
Ruhana Kuddus
Wahhabists

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