Indonesian and Malay Students in Cairo in the 1920's

Introducing the first issue of the third volume of the monthly Seruan Azhar (Call of Azhar) in October 1927, the then editor, Mahmud Junus, wrote that the journal "is for our homeland, because we recognize Indonesia and the Peninsula as one community, one people, with one adat, one way of life, and what is more, virtually one religion. . . ." Urging the two territories to unite for the common good of their peoples, he went on, ". .. With this 'call,' students at present in Egypt can associate themselves with their homeland while at the same time making known their ideas for the betterment of their people and