Pencorakan Kepulauan Melayu dan Pulau Pinang oleh Kaum Jawi Peranakan dan Hadhrami Melalui Kewartawanan dan Persuratkhabaran Sebelum 1942: Satu Tafsiran Semula Penulisan W. R. Roff The patterning of the Malay Archipelago and Penang by the Jawi Peranakans and Hadhrami through journalism and newspapers before 1942: a reinterpretation of the writings of W. R. Roff

Abstract

This article provides a reintrepretation and emphasis on journalism and newspapers, generally through the writings of W.R. Roff. Three of his works significant to this study are Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia (2009: NUS Press Singapore), Bibliography of Malay and Arabic periodicals published in the Straits Settlements an Peninsular Malay States 1876-1941 (1972: Oxford University Press) and The Origins of Malay Nationalism (1967: Yale University Press). From his studies, it is instructive to recall that the Malay-language newspapers was the outcome of the collusion between the culture of the Malay archipelago and the West; and early Malay journalism from 1876 through the beginning of the Japanese Occupation in 1942 was the expression and manifestation of a Malay identity through the Jawi Peranakan and Hadhrami communities in an urban and cosmopolitan climate, with specific reference to the Tanjong Malays in Pulau Pinang.

Artikel ini memberikan tafsiran semula dan penekanan terhadap kewartawanan dan akhbar, secara amnya melalui tulisan W.R. Roff. Tiga daripada karya beliau yang signifikan dalam kajian ini ialah Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia (2009: NUS Press Singapore), Bibliografi terbitan berkala Melayu dan Arab yang diterbitkan di Negeri-Negeri Selat dan Negeri-Negeri Melayu Semenanjung 1876-1941 (1972: Oxford University Press) dan The Origins of Malay Nationalism (1967: Yale University Press). Berdasarkan kajian beliau, adalah suatu keperluan untuk mengimbas kembali bahawa akhbar berbahasa Melayu adalah hasil pakatan sulit antara budaya kepulauan Melayu dan Barat; dan kewartawanan Melayu awal dari tahun 1876 hingga permulaan Pendudukan Jepun pada tahun 1942 adalah ekspresi dan manifestasi identiti Melayu melalui masyarakat Jawi Peranakan dan Hadhrami dalam iklim bandar dan kosmopolitan, dengan rujukan khusus kepada Melayu Tanjong di Pulau Pinang.