Hero
Monday, November 10, 2025
Pahlawan, the Indonesian word for “hero,” originally meant “wrestler.” With this expanded meaning, people competed to become heroes.
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WE call them pahlawan, heroes, sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, depending on how much we believe in the word. Perhaps because we are not entirely sure of the meaning of the word we borrowed from far away, from the Persian pahlavan or the Hindi pehlwan, both of which mean wrestler.
When the word was first absorbed into Indonesian, perhaps we had a very simple concept of heroes, namely those who were good at fighting, because they had cou
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