Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, June 1st, 2001
Police manuals produced in the Siak and Riau-Lingga sultanates during the 1890s reveal something of the concerns of each society in an early stage of colonial state formation, and how they dealt with changing understandings of crime and punishment. Despite their many similarities, the manuals show that each Malay state had a distinctive character, and differed in its approach to issues of modernisation.
In 1893 a pamphlet explaining police regulations for the sultanate of Riau-Lingga, the archipelago to the south of Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, was published on the tiny court-centric ...
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