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Tengku Amir Hamzah (February 1911 – 20 March 1946) [a] was an Indonesian poet and National Hero of Indonesia. Born into a Malay aristocratic family in the Sultanate of Langkat in North Sumatra , he was educated in both Sumatra and Java .
Anwar opined that Amir, through Nyanyi Sunyi, brought a new style to the Indonesian language, with its "compactly violent, sharp, and yet short" sentences. [1] In a 1945 article he wrote (translation by Raffel), "Before Amir (Hamzah) one could call the old poetry a destructive force; but what a bright light he shone on the new language". [1]
Tengku Hamzah; Tengku Abdul Murad [ag] Tengku Ibrahim; Tengku Aman Shah; Tengku Intan Zaitunnisa; 18 Tengku Muhammad Khalid Shah, Tengku Indera Bijaya Diraja [13] born 1914 son of Cik Chik binti Abdullah (1) Pangiran Anak Hajah Siti Saerah binti Sultan Sir Ahmad Tajuddin of Brunei div. 2 children Pangiran Anak Hajah Nur Asikin; Pangiran Anak ...
The Sultan of Langkat's daughters were raped and poet Tengku Amir Hamzah was killed on 9 March by the Pemuda (young Japanese-trained militant) leaders and many Malay farmers were forced to give up their plantation land that they had acquired under the Dutch to be redistributed for those former plantation workers and non-Malay farmers (mostly ...
In 1962 documentarian HB Jassin compiled all of Amir's remaining works – except the book Sastera Melajoe Lama dan Radja-Radja'nja – as Amir Hamzah: Radja Penjair Pudjangga Baru. [1] Born in Langkat to Malay nobility, Amir completed his education at schools run by the Dutch colonial government in several cities on Sumatra and Java. [2]
The cooperation with the Dutch extended to political activities, including the banning of the popular nationalist Partindo party in 1933 and the recall in 1935 of the sultan's nephew Amir Hamzah from his studies in Batavia because he had become too involved in the Indonesian independence movement. Amir Hamzah subsequently married the sultan's ...
"Padamu Jua" was written by Amir Hamzah, a Langkat-born Malay writer who studied in Dutch schools. The poem is not dated (indeed, none of Hamzah's works are) [1] Poet Laurens Koster Bohang considers "Padamu Jua" to have been written between 1933 and 1937, [2] while Dutch scholar of Indonesian literature A. Teeuw dates it to 1936/1937. [3]
Tengku Amir Hamzah, poet and national hero (); Burhanuddin Harahap, 9th Prime Minister of Indonesia (); Rinto Harahap, musician (); Sunaryati Hartono, attorney, professor of law and government official ()