The entire Sunday was spent doing basic research on stuff like Javanese migration, Javanese in Singapore, 17th century religious teachers and Javanese in Johore.I found some pretty interesting websites, one of which explained how and why Javanese labourers were brought to Malaya by the British to work in the coffee, pepper and tobacco plantations.
Because the Javanese were thought to be of the same stock with the Malays, they were much more preferred than the Chinese and Indian labourers who dominated the tin mining and rubber industries respectively. I guess that would explain why so many of my family members had so many pieces of land in Batu Pahat due to their enterprising and hard workingnature.
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