Warkah-warkah Sultan Buton Muhyiuddin Abdul Gafur kepada kompeni Belanda, Koleksi Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden
A prominent collection of Butonese manuscript are those known as the Butonese royal letters. They were sent to local authorities in the Nusantara region, particularly those situated in the eastern part of the archipelago, as well as to the Dutch. A sovereign maritime kingdom situated in the easte...
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2007
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1108/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1108/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1108/1/Warkah-warkah_Sultan_Buton.pdf |
| Summary: | A prominent collection of Butonese manuscript are those known as the Butonese
royal letters. They were sent to local authorities in the Nusantara region,
particularly those situated in the eastern part of the archipelago, as well as to
the Dutch. A sovereign maritime kingdom situated in the eastern part of
Indonesia, the Sultanate of Buton was established in the 14th century and
disappeared as a polity in 1960 after it’s integration into the Republic of
Indonesia. This paper looks at five royal letters that Sultan Muhyiuddin Abdul
Gafur, the 26th Butonese Sultan, who reigned from 1791 to1799, sent to the
Dutch Governor-General of East Indies in Batavia. Written between 1788 and
1798, they are now preserved in Leiden University Library in the Netherlands.
Herewith is presented a transliteration of these five letters, which touch on
their intrinsic aspects. Through it, some historical events that occurred in the
Sultanate of Buton during Sultan Muhyiuddin Abdul Gafur’s reign are
reconstructed |
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