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- noun A
leader of acolonial -style village or tribe, in some islands ofIndonesia .
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Examples
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In the course of time the Government came to hear of the question and bade the _pengulu_ (Malay chief) to make enquiries in order to establish the responsibility.
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882
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