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Antropologi Indonesia

Abstract

This lecture is given in honour of A.B. Lapian whom I had the good fortunate to know. He was a notable scholar whose knowledge of the maritime world of Nusantara was exemplary. As an historian, he had a clear understanding of the broad contours of regional maritime history but equally, he had a concern for the illuminating details of that history. He had a special interest in the Bajau as a maritime population and in their crucial historical role in the trepang trade. I was fortunate to have participated in the International Seminar Professor Lapian organized on the Bajau in Jakarta. In my own work I have benefitted from that participation.

As my homage to Pak Lapian, I want to offer a lecture in two interlinked parts. In Part I, I want to consider the early Austronesian migrations that shaped the maritime world of Nusantara while in Part II, I want to consider the historical migrations of the Bajau as an exemplification of the continuity of the migrations that shape the contemporary maritime world. Specifically, I want to focus on the involvement of the Bajau in the trepang trade and its historical consequences to the present.

I also want to consider the idea of ‘migration’ itself and the range of phenomena covered by this general term. In particular, I would like to call for a research agenda that probes more closely the sociology of maritime migration.

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