James Richardson Logan
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James Richardson Logan was the man who coined the name Indonesia
. He was a prominent lawyer, an editor of the Penang Gazette and a former student of George Windsor Earl
, an English ethnologist; in 1850 Earl published the term 'Indu-nesians' to describe the peoples of the region. A marble statue of him stands in the compound of the Penang High Court building. Logan Road is named after him.
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
. He was a prominent lawyer, an editor of the Penang Gazette and a former student of George Windsor Earl
George Windsor Earl
George Windsor Earl was an English navigator and author of works on the Indian Archipelago. He coined the term 'Indu-nesian', later popularised and adopted as the name for Indonesia....
, an English ethnologist; in 1850 Earl published the term 'Indu-nesians' to describe the peoples of the region. A marble statue of him stands in the compound of the Penang High Court building. Logan Road is named after him.