A comparative study on indigenous female sexuality body in the novels at Balai Pustaka and Tionghoa descent

This qualitative study at examining the body conflict on indigenous women and sexuality were portrayed by the litterateur published in Balai Pustaka novels and Tionghoa Descent litterateur stories. Some of the literature that was studied included Siti Nurbaya (Marah Rusli), Salah Asuhan by Abdoel Moeis as a work of Balai Pustaka period. Meanwhile, Tjerita Si Jonet, Tjerita Nyai Rossina, and Tjerita Nyai Paina were some literary works of Tionghoa Descent. The present study saw that there was similarities colonial perspective against indigenous women. Similarly, indigenous men against indigenous women. They believed that indigenous women did not have a right and a freedom. In colonial view, indigenous women were thoroughly indigenous powerlessness. In the indigenous men view against indigenous women over the nativist position in their gender context. Orientalism in body conflict indigenous women and sexuality at Balai Pustaka novels and novels that were written by Tionghoa Descent presented by the authors through their characters. In Balai Pustaka novels, orientalism body conflict on indigenous women and sexuality presented by prominent indigenous men against indigenous women. For instance, the perspective Datuk Maringgih to Siti Nurbaya. Orientalism in body conflict indigenous women and sexuality in the novels that were written by Tionghoa Descent literature included that was carried out by the Dutch colonial figures and indigenous leaders. Some perspective that denoted the female body and female sexuality natives unlike the liyan wass a perspective mrs van der Ploegh towards Rossina in Tjerita Nyi Rossina, Si Jonat perspective toward Si Saipa in Tjerita Si Jonat, Mr. Briot perspective to Nyi Paina in Tjerita Nyi Paina by H. Kommer