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Economics: Crafts: Indonesia and Malaysia
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The Southeast Asian Malayo-Indonesian world is an archipelago that consists of a peninsula and literally thousands of islands scattered between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, encompassing the busy Malacca Straits and the South China Sea. A study…

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Leigh, Barbara, “Economics: Crafts: Indonesia and Malaysia”, in: Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, General Editor Suad Joseph. Consulted online on 23 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872-5309_ewic_EWICCOM_001414>
First published online: 2011



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