Greater Indonesia or in the Malay language, Indonesia Raya or Melayu Raya was a political concept that seeks to bring the Malay people together by uniting British Malaya with Dutch East Indies. The Republic of Indonesia ( (Republik Indonesia is a Country in Southeast Asia. For the biogeographical region see Malesia Malaysia (məˈleɪʒə or /məˈleɪziə/ is a country that consists of thirteen states and Brunei Darussalam, (bruːˈnaɪ in English officially the State of Brunei Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei Darussalam Jawi: برني دارالسلام East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste (officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) is a country in Southeast Asia. The Malay language ( ISO 639-1 code MS is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people and people of other ethnic groups who reside in the British Malaya loosely described a set of states on the Malay Peninsula that were colonized by the British from the 18th and the 19th until the 20th century See http//enwikipediaorg/wiki/WikipediaFootnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the tags and the template below [1]. It was espoused by students and graduates of Sultan Idris Training College for Malay Teachers in the late 1920s, and individuals from Sumatra and Java including Muh, Yamin and Sukarno in the 1950s. University Pendidikan Sultan Idris (Sultan Idris University of Education or UPSI is a public university in the town of Tanjung Malim, Perak in [1]
The idea for Greater Indonesia was penned by a history lecturer from Sultan Idris Training College for Malay Teachers by the name of Abdul Hadi Hassan. University Pendidikan Sultan Idris (Sultan Idris University of Education or UPSI is a public university in the town of Tanjung Malim, Perak in
The Malay nationalist Kesatuan Melayu Muda, founded by Ibrahim Hj Yaacob, was one of the more notable entities that embraced the concept as part of its goals. Kesatuan Melayu Muda ( KMM; roughly Young Malays Union in Malay) was the first national political establishment in British Malaya. Ibrahim Hj Yaacob was a Malayan politician An opponent of the British colonial government he was President and founder of the Kesatuan Melayu Muda [2] During World War II advocates of Greater Indonesia collaborated with the Japanese against the British and the Dutch. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including [3] The cooperation was based on the understanding that Japan would unite Dutch East Indies, Malaya and Borneo and grant them independence. [3] It was understood that under a unified Japanese occupation of these areas, the formation of Greater Indonesia was possible. [3]