The study addressed the problem of high relapse rates among Malay drug addicts in Singapore. It compared successfully rehabilitated with relapsed ex-addicts. Four groups of factors (familial, individual, religious, and social support) were selected as predictor variables. Likert…
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The present work has three main goals. Its first goal is simply to describe the language contact phenomena (LCP) occurring in a corpus of conversations among bilingual West Tarangan (WT) speakers of Dobo town in the Aru islands of southeast Maluku, Indonesia. The corpus consists…
The ethnic hinterland concept is introduced in this thesis to point to the space within which various exchanges which involve the social reproduction of migrant workers such as Orang Bawean take place. International division of labor reconstitutes the labor power of Orang Bawean…
This dissertation investigates the impact of industrialization on women's lives in a fishing village located on the east coast of Malaysia. The research explores the ways in which Malay women respond to and shape income-earning possibilities in the wake of rapid economic develop…
This dissertation examines the marginalization and eventual erasure of the literature written in Malay by the Chinese of colonial Indonesia. A substantial textual production between the 1870s and 1940s, Chinese-Malay literature disappeared not only from circulation in Indonesia,…
This dissertation is about the varieties of Malay in eastern Indonesia which have arisen through language contact as a result of trade and colonial policies over the past 500-1000 years. Seven varieties have been identified which have become the native languages of their communi…
The purpose of this study was to examine how gender and ethnicity were represented in both Chinese and Malay language reading textbooks currently used in primary schools of Malaysia. The aim of this textbook analysis was to determine the extent and manner in which the various gr…
This dissertation examines narrative structures and strategies within texts ("hikayats") of the Malay Muslim Court literary tradition by employing a "close reading" method. Examining these structures reveals that often apparently explicit meaning contradicts both explicit and im…
The purpose of this study is to examine the historical evolution and transformation of a particular Malay dance genre from a regional into a national dance form. The research focuses on the Zapin Melayu dance of Johor, the southern-most state of Peninsular Malaysia bordering Sin…
This dissertation takes a spatially informed approach to works set in the Imperial Malay World. The primary texts examined include Max Havelaar (1859) by Multatuli, Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad, The Ten Thousand Things (1958) by Maria Dermoût, and various works including the…
Among Malaysians today, there is a vibrant and growing presence of Malay Christians. This study examines their socio-religious life and identity vis-à-vis their family, the ummah, state, church and some aspects of globalization. To do so, adult male and female Malay Christians i…
This dissertation examines the grammar of a dialect of Kerinci spoken in the village of Tanjung Pauh Mudik. Kerinci is a Malayic language spoken primarily in the Kerinci Regency, in the mountainous western part of Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. In many Kerinci dialects, lex…
Jawi , based on Arabic script, is an orthography used for the Malay language. Although it is based on the Arabic writing system, there are six additional symbols to denote sounds in Malay that are not used in the Arabic language. Since the late 1960s the Jawi script has all but …
The destruction of coastal and marine resources caused by the advent of commercial push-net and trawler boats as well as the harmful practices of shrimp farming have adversely affected the livelihood of many Thai fishermen in the coastal areas of southern Thailand. The majority …