Dhanadi

“Kesetiaan memang bisa diharapkan dari mereka (orang kebanyakan), tetapi kebesaran hanya bisa datang dari seorang raja yang bijaksana”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Snouck could speak of the region of Aceh, on the nnorthern tip of Sumatra, as 'that country... that old pirate-state', and the American traveller Eliza Scidmore of ' the brave, liberty-loving Achinese'. Within a decade Aceh, however unwillyngly, was finally subjugated, its focus recalibrated from the Malay world and the Indian Ocean to Java, and its future rendered unmistakably as part of the Netherlands Indies”
― R.E. Elson, The Idea of Indonesia: A History

“The word 'Indonesia' was first manufactured in 1850 in the form 'Indu-nesians' by the English traveler and social observer George Samuel Windsor Earl. He was searching for an ethnographic term to describe 'that branch of the Polynesian race inhabiting the Indian Archipelago', or 'the brown races of the Indian Archipelago'.”
― R.E. Elson, The Idea of Indonesia: A History

“ Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous! ”
― Sukarno, Dibawah Bendera Revolusi : Jilid 1