‘Land of Sunda’ Archives
Looking for Junghuhn
Land of Sunda | Wednesday, 15 June 2011 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan Introduction OVER the past two years I have been undertaking a research into the visualization of natural landscapes of nineteenth-century Priangan, which were made by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864). Priangan—a Sundanese toponym of what colonial time [...]
Junghuhn and the Image of Priangan
Land of Sunda | Monday, 10 January 2011 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan Little is my knowledge of the life and time of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864), for I have only read limited sources on the subject. Among the materials I have studied so far is an account of the man by Rob Nieuwenhuys in a chapter of his Mirror of Indies, an [...]
Sacred Mountain of Priangan
Land of Sunda | Thursday, 25 November 2010 | sundanesecorner.org Hawé Setiawan The idea of divinities that is implied in the name of priangan may, to some extents, reminds one to what Mircea Eliade in his study on religion calls ‘sacred space’. According to Eliade, religious man (homo religiosus) realizes a certain space in their [...]
The Name of Priangan
Land of Sunda | Friday, 19 November 2010 | sundanesecorner.org Hawe Setiawan The word priangan is one of several derivatives of parahiyangan. The other ones are parahiang, parahyangan, parahiangan, parayangan, priyangan, and prayangan. European writers in colonial era adapted the name into preanger. The word priangan itself is derived [...]
Bandung
Land of Sunda |Monday, 26 April 2010 | sundanesecorner.org Bandung is one of the fastest growing cities in Indonesia at the moment. Having built by the Dutch in early 19th century, once this city was built for about 600.000 inhabitants. During the early period of her development, there were about 60.000 inhabitants, mainly [...]
The Need to Reforest Citarum
BANDUNG---While fear of flood grips residents of some regions of Bandung, call for reforest the upper reach of Citarum River is growing. For flood attacks ruin Majalaya, Paseh, Ibun, Dayeuhkolot and Baleendah every year, residents of these regions are trying to lessen the coming flood attacks. Residents of Majalaya, for instance, cooperated [...]
