Indonesian

Scholar Paul Thomas has rightly identified Indonesian as ‘Australia’s first Asian Language’. Sources on Australia from Indonesia go back to its colonial period, when it was called was called the Netherlands East Indies. The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) holds many sources in Indonesian such as the newspaper Penjoeloeh, which was published in Melbourne during WWII, and sheds light on Indonesian experiences in Australia. The Australian National University (ANU), the NLA, the NAA and Monash University Library have extensive holdings of Indonesian sources related to its war of Independence and the period after 1949.