Flash Experience | Non Flash Experience
  The Sacred Knowledge of Writing
  Scripts of the Malay Archipelago
  The Coming of Islam
  Colonial Encounters
  Singapore and Modern Writing


○ Introduction
○ Munsyi Abdullah & His Works
○ Printing in Singapore
○ From Jawi to Rumi (1)
○ From Jawi to Rumi (2)
○ The Future of Jawi Script
 

Printing in Singapore

Gestetner printing machine
Malay Heritage Centre

Invented in the late 19th century and used until the 1960s, the Gestetner printing machine enabled printers to produce multiple copies of a document in-house for the first time, allowing for the mass production of printed publications. The machine forced ink through the cut marks on a stencil wrapped around the drum of the machine.

Alat pencetak Gestetner ini mula digunakan pada akhir abad ke 19. alat ini berupaya mencetak salinan dokumen secara besar-besaran.



Jawi Peranakan (Jawi, 1881: 28  March, 18 April, 25 April, 6 June, 13 June & 21 November)
Bintang Timor (Rumi, 1894: 2 & 3 July)
Lembaga Melayu (Jawi, 1914: 1 & 2 September)
Utusan Melayu (Rumi, 1939: 20 & 21 July)
National Library Board

Jawi Peranakan, published in Singapore, was one of the earliest Malay newspapers in the region.  In 1914, the Malay edition of the Malaya Tribune was launched, Lembaga Melayu. Its first editor, Mohamed Eunos Abdullah, was a prominent Singapore Malay leader. He had previously been editor of Utusan Melayu, the Malay edition of the Singapore Free Press. Although Utusan Melayu ceased publication in 1921, it reappeared in 1939. Among its founders was Yusof bin Ishak, who later became Singapore’s first Yang di-Pertuan Negara (head of state) and then President of the Republic of Singapore.

The Peranakan community in Singapore also published its own newspaper, Bintang Timor, initiated by prominent Peranakan Chinese Sir Song Ong Siang. However, it ceased publication in 1895.

Akhbar-akhbar ini adalah terbitan terawal di Singapura. Diantaranya ialah Jawi Peranakan, Bintang Timor dan Lembaga Melayu yang diketuai Mohamed Eunos Abdullah. Perintis Utusan Melayu pula ialah Yusof bin Ishak yang kemudiannya menjadi Yang di-Pertuan Negara dan Presiden pertama Republik Singapura.