Abstract
Print empowers ways of communicating an idea. In fact, in many ways, it could promote democratization of an individual’s expression, which sometimes can be uncontrollable and even anarchic. Though printing has powerful impact on society; it has been ignored in mainstream scholarship. Existing studies about printing press and its impact on the Malay world are limited. It is surprisingly marginalized in the mainstream scholarship despite the fact that history actually bears witness that printing played an important role in the past. Thus, this article discusses the print culture in the Malay world with special reference to the Kingdom of Riau-Lingga. It begins by describing the techniques of printing especially lithography and typography used in the Malay world. It also explains the advent of the print technology in the Dutch East Indies in general and Riau in particular, and how the print culture gradually replaced manuscript in knowledge transmission during the time of Raja Ali Haji. Subsequently, it describes how the Rushdiah Club utilized this technology during the end of the 19th century in Riau-Lingga.
Highlights
The Sultanate of Riau-Lingga was a Malay kingdom, which emerged from 1824 to 1911
This study focuses on the development of print culture in Riau-Lingga during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
This article describes the Rushdiah Club early involvement in printing activities and its evolution and development in the later, more matured stage of its activism. It describes how the Rushdiah Club utilized this technology during the end of the 19th century in Riau-Lingga; and the transfer of the Rushdiah printing activities to the neighboring areas, especially Singapore and Penang
Summary
The Sultanate of Riau-Lingga was a Malay kingdom, which emerged from 1824 to 1911 It is known as Nagari Segantang Lada, which refers to “thousands of large and small islands spread out across the vast sea” [1]. Zakariya and Oktasari state that this sultanate was a maritime kingdom whose territories included sea with thousands of islands and the majority of its population was (and still is) Muslim [2] This kingdom served as a prominent literary cultural and religious center in the Malay world and it had produced renowned writers such as Raja Ali Haji (RAH). This article describes the Rushdiah Club early involvement in printing activities and its evolution and development in the later, more matured stage of its activism It describes how the Rushdiah Club utilized this technology during the end of the 19th century in Riau-Lingga; and the transfer of the Rushdiah printing activities to the neighboring areas, especially Singapore and Penang
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