What would we learn about Singapore’s architectural and urban history if we focused on just one group (or two closely related groups, if you like), the Makassarese and Bugis? First, who are the Makassarese and the Bugis? A detailed book-length discussion may be found in the book The Bugis by the late Christian Pelras (1996). But […]
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Singapura Stories is very fortunate to have two article contributions from an independent scholar, Daeng Paliweng from Johor, Malaysia and a member of the Johor Bugis Association (UGIK), on two of the merchants buried in Jalan Kubor Cemetery, behind Malabar Mosque, Victoria Street, Kampung Gelam town (Kampong Glam) in Singapore. The first article was […]
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Singapura Stories is very fortunate to have two article contributions from an independent scholar, Daeng Paliweng from Johor, Malaysia, on two of the merchants buried in the historically significant Jalan Kubor Cemetery, Singapore. In this first article we learn more about a man who was possibly the wealthiest among the Bugis merchants in late nineteenth- […]
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This is the sixth of seven articles on Hari Raya and Malay Culture appearing in the July/August 2014 issue of PASSAGE, the magazine of the Friends of the Museum (FOM). In the 1950s and 1960s, wedding receptions and Hari Raya celebrations were occasions when Malay women would be at their finest, wearing colourful baju (items of […]
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