| has gloss | eng: Greater Indonesia or in the Malay language, Indonesia Raya or Melayu Raya was a political concept that seeks to bring the Malay people together by uniting British Malaya with Dutch East Indies. . It was espoused by students and graduates of Sultan Idris Training College for Malay Teachers in the late 1920s, and individuals from Sumatra and Java including Muh, Yamin and Sukarno in the 1950s. During World War II advocates of Greater Indonesia collaborated with the Japanese against the British and the Dutch. The cooperation was based on the understanding that Japan would unite Dutch East Indies, Malaya and Borneo and grant them independence. It was understood that under a unified Japanese occupation of these areas, the formation of Greater Indonesia was possible. |
