Nusantara Society

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Nusantara Society
Nusantara log.jpg
Established1990
ChairmanSikorsky V. V.
Location
Moscow
,
Russia
Website

The Nusantara Society (Russian : Общество «Нусантара») is a Russian non-profit learned society for research fellows, professors, lecturers, students and postgraduates of Moscow and St. Petersburg academic institutions, universities and higher schools, studying the vast region of Nusantara, populated by peoples speaking Austronesian languages. Nusantara includes Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Timor Leste, Madagascar, Oceania, as well as countries where Austronesian minorities are present, such as Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan (Republic of China). [1]

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Short history

The Society was founded on January 10, 1990, on the basis of the Malay-Indonesian Readings. Later, in June 1998, the Nusantara Research Center was established at the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University. [2] The founder and the President of the Society till 2004 was Dr. B.B. Parnickel. In 2000 the NS was re-registered. The founders were: Aliyeva N.F., Demidyuk L.N., Dorofeeva T.V., Parnikel B.B., Pogadaev V.A., Sikorsky V.V. [3]

Malay-Indonesian Readings, 6.6.2011 NusantaraSeminar.jpg
Malay-Indonesian Readings, 6.6.2011
Nusantara Society Activists Dr. E.S. Kukushkina, Dr. V.V. Sikorsky, Dr. V.A. Pogadaev, Dr. L.V. Goriaeva, Dr. N.P. Maletin at the jubilee meeting of the society (Moscow, 4.4.2018) Nusantara Society Activists.JPG
Nusantara Society Activists Dr. E.S. Kukushkina, Dr. V.V. Sikorsky, Dr. V.A. Pogadaev, Dr. L.V. Goriaeva, Dr. N.P. Maletin at the jubilee meeting of the society (Moscow, 4.4.2018)

The main aims

The main aims of the Nusantara Society are as follows: [4]

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Malay-Indonesian Studies, Issue XVIII

Cooperation with other institutions

The Nusantara Society cooperates closely with the Gorky Institute of World Literature under the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature and the Russian State Library, the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Saint Petersburg State University; Leiden University and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in the Netherlands, the University of Malaya, the Malaysian Institute of Language and Literature ( Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka ) and other institutions abroad. A memorandum of understanding was signed with the Malaysian Institute of Language and Literature in 1995.

In December 2017, Nusantara Society celebrated 50th anniversary of the Malay-Indonesian Readings (under the patronage of the academician A.A. Guber) which became the basis for the Nusantara Society. April 4, 2018, the 20th issue of the collection Malay-Indonesian studies was launched at the jubilee meeting of the society. [5]

The Nusantara Society is also engaged in publishing. [6] Its publications include the Malay-Indonesian Studies Series (partly based on seminar papers) and miscellaneous studies on Nusantara culture (in cooperation with Saint Petersburg University). Up until 2019 there were 21 issues of Malay-Indonesian Studies.

Board (2021)

Members

Honorary members of the Society are Malaysian Poets Datuk Dr. Kemala (since November 22, 2017) [7] and Dr. Siti Zainon Ismail (since January 1, 2020).

Notes

  1. ↑ Victor Pogadaev. "Persatuan Nusantara Moscow aktif dalam aktiviti sastera" - "Mingguan Malaysia", Kuala Lumpur, 1.5.2016
  2. ↑ Ulianov M. Yu. "Kultura Nusantari" (Nusantara Culture) - in: "Vostok" (Oriens). M.: Russian Academy of Science, N 5, 1993
  3. ↑ ОБЩЕСТВО "НУСАНТАРА"
  4. ↑ Pogadaev V. A., Sikorsky V. V. "Obshestvu Nusantara - 5 Let" (Nusantara Society Celebrates the 5th Anniversary) - in: "Vostok" (Oriens). M.: Russian Academy of Science, N3, 1997, p. 159 – 160.
  5. ↑ Victor Pogadaev. Jubli emas seminar Melayu-Indonesia (Golden Jubilee of Malay-Indonesian Readings) // Malaysia Kini 16.4.2018
  6. ↑ "Sastrawan Nusantara dan Akademi Russia terbitkan Ensiklopadi Asia". - "Pelita", Jakarta, 26. 12. 1994
  7. ↑ Sasterawan Malaysia dilantik ahli kehormat Persatuan Nusantara Russia Archived 2018-06-28 at the Wayback Machine

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