The famous English book was first published in 1719, and since then has been translated all over the world. Including here: into Malay in 1875, Sundanese in 1879, Javanese 1881 and Bar’e for the Toraja people in 1914.

It was meant for educating children. But that was not the intention of its author, Daniel Defoe.

Defoe, who started out as a trader and later became an activist and writer of pamphlets, got the idea for his novel from the st