Remaja Malaya

Perkumpulan pencolekan bidadari di dunia [Group of kidnappers, angels of the world]. (Marang, Trengganu: H.C.Muhammad A. Rahman, 1958)

This book comes from a collection of popular Malay novels written in Jawi script. Jawi script is an adaptation of Arabic script. The collection belonged to the late Professor Cyril Skinner, founding Professor of Indonesian and Malay at Monash University.

The novel has a didactic intention, which is to promote responsibility in marriage and expose the evils of materialism and forced marriages in Muslim communities. Remaja Malaya is a pen name, meaning ‘a Malayan youth’. His introduction to the book concludes: “In memory of the Independence of Indonesia, 17^th August”, indicating perhaps the author’s aspirations for Malay independence.

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