That Name
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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IN the mid-18th century, an explorer in this archipelago, seeing the brown-skinned inhabitants who resembled Polynesians, wondered: What are these people called? What is the name of these islands of theirs?
George Samuel Windsor Earl, this English explorer, decided: “Indunesia”. But then he changed his mind, “Malayanusia” would be better, he said. But this name did not last long. His colleague, James Logan, chose the name “Indonesia”
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