Nusantara Society

The Nusantara Society was founded on January 10, 1990, and the Nusantara Research Center was established in June 1998 at the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University. The Society comprises research fellows, professors, lecturers, students and postgraduates of Moscow and St. Petersburg academic institutions, universities and higher schools, studying the vast region of Nusantara, populated by peoples speaking Austronesian languages. Nusantara includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines, Madagascar, Oceania, as well as countries where Austronesian minorities are present, such as Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan (Republic of China).

The main aims of the Nusantara Society are as follows:

The Nusantara Society cooperates closely with the Gorky Institute of World Literature under the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Rudomino Library for foreign Literature and the Russian State Library, the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Saint Petersburg State University; Leiden University and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in the Netherlands, the University of Malaya, the Malaysian Institute of Language and Literature (Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka) and other institutions abroad. A memorandum of understanding was signed with the Malaysian Institute of Language and Literature in 1995.

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