Leo Suryadinata
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LOCATION: Singapore
Cluster Associate, Chinese Research Centre, National University of Singapore. Former Research Associate, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyōto University, Japan. Author of The Pre-World War II Peranakan Chinese Press of Java.
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Gajah Mada was the prime minister of the Majapahit Empire and a national hero in Indonesia. He is believed to have unified the entire archipelago. The principal poet of the era, Prapanca, eulogized Gajah Mada in an epic, and the first Indonesian university in Jogjakarta was named after him (1946).…
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