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Flight 714: Why Djakarta, not Jakarta?

cigars of the beeper
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#1 · Posted: 3 Nov 2007 21:48

[Branched off from topic Flight 714: Always an American dollar?]

Do you know why the book calls Jakarta 'Djakarta'?

Balthazar
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#2 · Posted: 4 Nov 2007 01:21

According to Wikipedia, it was spelt Djakarta between 1942 and 1972, before changing to Jakarta after that. Apparently it was called Batavia between 1619 and 1942, and had various other different names in earlier times.

tintinspartan
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#3 · Posted: 5 Nov 2007 10:31

FYI, Jakarta was Batavia when the Dutch ruled the place before World War II. Jakarta was spelt 'djakarta' when we malays used the old spelling system before it was reformatted by a Malaysian Professor around the mid-1970s. That's when Indonesia removed the 'D' from it.

Let me share with you the differences between the two spelling systems; old and new.

Word that we are going to use is 'Orang-Orang' (People).

Old Spelling of People in Malay: Orang2

Modern Spelling of People in Malay: Orang-Orang

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