A malay of bugis ancestry: Haji Ibrahim's strategies of survival. From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: Putten, Jan van der | COPYRIGHT 2001 Singapore University Press Pte Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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The descendants of Bugis mercenary forces that liberated Riau from cast Sumatran invaders became an integral part of the local Malay community by the mid-nineteenth century. At that time Raja Ali Haji and Haji Ibrahim, two Malay authors of Bugis descent, wrote various tracts to legitimise their presence in Riau and to facilitate Bugis integration into the Malay community, but may have led to continuing divisions along ethnic lines in later years. ...

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