Indonesian

Indonesian, a term invented by Logan to designate the non-Malay inhabitants of the Eastern Archipelago, but now used as a convenient collective name for all the races of Malaysia and.Polynesia who are neither Malays nor Papuans. Such are the Battaks of North Sumatra, many of the so-called Dyaks of Borneo, most of the natives of Jilolo (Halmahera), and the large brown race of East Polynesia (Samoans, Maori, Tongans, Tahitians, Marquesas Islanders, many Micronesians, and the Hawaiians). Dr. Hamy, who first gave this extension to the word, points out that the Battaks and other pre-Malay peoples of the Eastern Archipelago so closely resemble the Eastern Polynesians that the two groups should be regarded as two branches of an original non-Malay stock. Although all speak dialects of the common Malayo-Polynesian language, the physical type is quite distinct, and rather Caucasic than Mongolic - tall stature i (5 feet 10 inches), muscular frame, dolichocephalous skull, rather oval features, high, open forehead, large, straight nose, large eyes horizontally slit, lips moderately projecting, beard often fairly developed, complexion much lighter than the Malay (light cinnamon), long black hair slightly curled or wavy. (Dr. E. T. Hamy, Bulletin de la- Societe de Qeographie, xiii., 1877; A. H. Keane, Relations of the Indo-Chinese and Oceanic Races, 1880.)