usage in colonial era racism against Javanese Hasan di Tiro s writings against Indonesia and Javanese Hassan called Indonesian rule over Aceh and other places like East Timor West Papua and the Moluccas as Javanese domination Tiro engaged in racist rhetoric against Javanese calling them barbarians stupid insolent relatives of monkeys and insinuated that they were descended from Pithecanthropus erectus in his play The drama of acehnese history 1873 1978 The drama of acehnese history 1873 1978