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> In 1850, George Windsor Earl, an English ethnologist, proposed the terms Indunesians and Malayunesians for the inhabitants of the "Indian Archipelago or Malay Archipelago", preferring the latter because he considered Indunesians too general.[14][13] In the same journal, James Richardson Logan adopted Indonesia as a geographical term for the Indian Archipelago.[15][13]

>After 1900, Indonesia became increasingly common in academic and public usage, and Indonesian nationalist organisations adopted it as an expression of national unity and freedom from colonial rule.[16]

we will throw off the yoke of colonial oppression by adopting the terms they invented for us as the basis of our national identity