‘Indonesia’, ‘Insulinde’ and ‘Nusantara’; Dotting the i’s and crossing the t

Abstract

Since the Second World War several other articles which concern themselves with the term 'Indonesia' have been published. In 1938, Insulinde was re-established as a political party by J.J.E. Teeuwen, though it was less successful than the former one. [...]in Semarang the first number of a journal called Insulinde was produced in 1910; it contained many political articles. According to Berg's interpretation, Gajah Mada vowed to abstain from participation in certain Tantric rites, in which the participant experiences the pleasures of sexual intercourse with the 'yogini', as long as Nusantara remained unconquered; the words amukti palapa in the vow would then refer to the enjoyment of the 'circle rites'. 'Nusantara' was more frequently used in colourful descriptions of the Indonesian archipelago, and once even as the title for a history book on Indonesia.17 It appears to be popular, too, as a name for ethnographic museums. [...]Andrzej Wawrzyniak, former cultural attache at the Polish Embassy in Jakarta, established an ethnographic museum in Warsaw in 1973 which he called 'Nusantara'.