Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië (abbreviated B.K.I.) was a Dutch colonial scholarly journal devoted to the linguistics, geography, and ethnography of the Netherlands East Indies. It published numerous studies on Malay texts, including an edition of the Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai.
Publication History
The source notes that the Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai appeared in B.K.I. volume 65 (1911), pages 232–245, subsection 7. The journal served as a venue for orientalists such as Dulaurier and later editors to share transcriptions, translations, and linguistic analyses of indigenous manuscripts.
Role in Acehnese and Malay Studies
Through articles on Malay language and literature, B.K.I. contributed to the foundation of modern Austronesian linguistics and provided early Western scholarship on the historical polities of Sumatra, including Pasai and the subsequent Aceh Sultanate. Its archives remain a resource for researchers studying the colonial-era documentation of Acehnese history.
See Also
- Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai
- Pasai
- Dulaurier
- J. P. Mead
- Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Source
20260707_232246_DLP-54-Een_16de_eeuwse_Maleise_vertaling_van_de_Burda_van_al_Bu_s_i_ri_OCR.txt, page 85.