West Java
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- Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Java
- Kern Collection about Indonesia - The National Library of Australia (NLA), Canberra, Australia:
-- The printed and online December 2009 issue of The National Library Magazine contains an article by Andrew Gosling, "Indonesia before independence through the Kern Collection" [at the URL below] In 1959 the National Library of Australia acquired the Kern Collection, its most important collection of pre-20th century books and manuscripts about the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia). The Library integrated the material into its Rare Books, Manuscripts and General Collections. Rudolf Aernoud Kern (1875-1958) was a distinguished civil servant in the Dutch East Indies from 1896 to 1926, and later an academic at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Throughout his life he wrote prolifically on Indonesian topics. Kern also collected widely on the bibliography, history, language, law, religion, ethnography, archaeology, and fine arts of Indonesia. Highlights of his collection include rare 17th century books and pamphlets about the history of eastern Indonesia as well as rare dictionaries and grammars of Southeast Asian languages. Kern's greatest scholarly interest lay in the language and culture of the Sundanese people of West Java. In his collection there is a set of 130 transcripts of Sundanese manuscripts, which are seen to represent Sundanese traditional literary culture. Several of the originals have been lost and their transcriptions in Canberra may be the only extant copies available.
-- URL http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2009/dec09/story-5.pdf
-- Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/
