Sutan Puasa pengasas sebenar Kuala Lumpur? February 21, 2019 – Posted in: In The News

Betulkah Sutan Puasa, seorang saudagar Mandailing, pengasas sebenar Kuala Lumpur? Kenyataan Prof Emeritus Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Kim pada beberapa wacana intelektual tahun lepas bahawa “pengasas Kuala Lumpur ialah Sutan Puasa, dari Mandailing”, menimbulkan persoalan dalam kalangan orang ramai kerana sejarah Malaysia menyebut bahawa Yap Ah Loy, seorang Kapitan China, adalah pengasas bandar raya ini. Bagaimanapun, sebuah buku yang diterbitkan baru-baru ini berjudul Sutan Puasa Founder of Kuala Lumpur karangan Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, mendedahkan maklumat baharu tentang…

Hari Wilayah: Makna dan sejarah yang dilupakan February 18, 2019 – Posted in: In The News

APAKAH makna pengisytiharan Hari Wilayah kepada warga kota khususnya Kuala Lumpur, selain daripada cuti umum? Cuti adalah waktu untuk kita berehat, melepaskan sementara beban-beban kerja, melegakan minda juga lenguh-lenguh badan selepas beberapa hari ‘berperang’ di pejabat dan dalam kesesakan jalan raya. Namun cuti juga membawa makna tersendiri khususnya jika ia disempenakan peristiwa tertentu. Hari Wilayah contohnya, yang kita sambut setiap hari pertama bulan Februari adalah hari untuk kita mengingati penubuhan Wilayah Persekutuan pada tarikh sama…

Sutan Puasa Lubis, Pendiri Kuala Lumpur February 4, 2019 – Posted in: In The News

Kontroversi tentang sejarah Kuala Lumpur sudah berlangsung lama Abdur-Razaq Lubis melalui bukunya Sutan Puasa: Founder of Kuala Lumpur menyelesaikannya dengan data akurat Pendiri Kuala Lumpur bukan Kapten Cina Ketiga Yap Ah Loy dan juga bukan Raja Abdullah keturunan bangsawan dari Bugis itu Pendiri Kuala Lumpur adalah Sutan Puasa Lubis, seorang bangsawan dari Mandailing Penggunaan kata “founder” dalam sejarah yang dituliskan oleh pihak Barat adalah sesuatu yang amat bermasalah. Tak dapat tidak, kata itu telah amat…

Farewell Pak Lah – may your soul rest in peace (21.11.1929 – 6.3.2010) December 6, 2018 – Posted in: In The News

Professor Abdullah Darus, That is how I have always thought of you, my friend and my professor. I know that you never considered yourself as anyone’s teacher and always cautioned me to think for myself. I knew the inevitable moment will come and it did in the form of your daughter’s sms on 6.3.2010 saying that “Pak Lah meninggal jam 11.05pm”. The only thought that came to my mind at that moment was the fact…

Syair Boria: a review – Posted in: Reviews

Syair Boria, Biografi Abdullah Darus problematized the origins of boria, a performing art form peculiar to Penang to Persian Syiah beginnings arising from the murder of Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in Karbala, Iraq in the 7th century, to mark the occasion. The practice came to Penang with the arrival of sepoy soldiers from the 21st Madras Regiment. Speculations abound as to its origins that boria is derived from boriah or mat…

An absolute must-read November 29, 2018 – Posted in: Reviews

Alasdair Forbes reviews Colin Mackay’s rollicking history of Phuket First, a declaration of interest: I edited an early version of Colin Mackay’s A History of Phuket and the Surrounding Region. I thought then that it was an excellent piece of work. The final product is just plain superb. Mackay spent five or six years researching the book, unearthing memoirs, official documents, love letters and even an epic poem, in Thai, English, Dutch, Russian, German, Portuguese,…

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A historical book on Phuket – Posted in: Reviews

Colin Mackay’s A History of Phuket and the Surrounding Region (White Lotus, Bangkok, 2012, 418pp) is a magnificent achievement: a towering work of erudition leavened with sly humor and fascinating side-bars. While destined to be the standard reference text for the island’s history, the book is so vividly written that it deserves to be a raging best-seller. Mackay covers the early waves of migration down the Malay peninsula – Negrito, Malay, Mon, Burmese, Thai –…

Exciting Indie Publishers of Penang November 1, 2018 – Posted in: In The News

Areca Books Founded by Khoo Salma Nasution and her husband Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, Areca Books, an independent publisher cum bookstore, set up shop in 2005. The publishing house has over 40 titles focusing on social history, biographies, cultural heritage, architecture, the environment and visual arts to its name. “We are very interested in the subject of Malaysiana. Our cultural diversity has been sadly reduced to a trichotomy of Malay, Indian and Chinese, but our social history…

She who wants to see Penang at its classic best October 15, 2018 – Posted in: In The News

George Town native Khoo Salma Nasution @ Khoo Su Nin, 55, wears many hats in championing the Penang capital’s colonial era heritage. She was the president of Penang Heritage Trust, and prior to that was involved in the group’s successful lobbying to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) to list George Town as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 2008. Khoo Salma has written multiple books about Penang’s history, some of which were…

Sutan Puasa, a review by the Malaysian Historical Society October 4, 2018 – Posted in: Reviews

Buku berjudul Sutan Puasa: Founder of Kuala Lumpur setebal 615 halaman ditulis oleh Abdur-Razzaq Lubis dan diterbitkan oleh Areca Books. Buku ini dipercayai akan menimbulkan debat tentang siapa sebenarnya membuka Kuala Lumpur. Abdur-Razzaq menyatakan buku ini diterbitkan adalah berdasarkan maklumat baru berkaitan dengan sejarah tanah air. Buku ini memberi fokus kepada peranan Sutan Puasa, saudagar Maidaling yang terlibat dalam kegiatan awal lombong bijih timah di Kuala Lumpur di pertengahan abad ke-19. Abdur-Razzaq mempunyai data dan fakta…

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