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Hors-Série n° 4 | 2024
Kota Cina: A Settlement in the Strait of Malacca (Late Eleventh – Early Fourteenth Centuries CE) - (Edited by Daniel Perret & Heddy Surachman)

Kota Cina - A Settlement in the Strait of Malacca (Late Eleventh–Early Fourteenth Centuries CE)
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Crédits : Association Archipel
ISBN 978-623-134-216-4

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This collective volume finds its origin in an archaeological research project conducted between 2011 and 2018 by the École française d’Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies) in cooperation with the National Centre for Archaeological Research of Indonesia (Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional Indonesia). Of course, this international cooperative programme could not have been successfully completed without the support of numerous personalities and several institutions.
I express my gratitude firstly to Professor Franciscus Verellen, Professor Yves Goudineau, and Professor Christophe Marquet, the successive directors of the École française d’Extrême-Orient during this period, who gave us all their trust through financial support in order to successfully complete this project. 
In Indonesia, this programme could not have been initiated without the strong links of scientific cooperation established for more that forty years between the École française d’Extrême-Orient and the National Centre for Archaeological Research of Indonesia (Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional Indonesia). Here, I would like to sincerely thank Dr. Tony Djubiantono, Dr. Bambang Sulistyanto, and Dr. I Made Geria, the successive directors of the Puslit Arkenas during this period, as well as their administrative staff, who ensured the success of this project up to its completion. I extend my thanks to M. Baskoro D. Tjahjono, M.A., then director of the Archaeological Office in Medan (Balai Arkeologi Medan), and its administrative staff, who ensured appropriate administrative contacts at the regional and local levels during the programme.
I would like to thank also the Indonesian Ministry for Scientific Research (KemRISTEK), which granted the necessary research permits allowing foreigners to undertake archaeological research in Indonesia. 
This archaeological project devoted to Kota Cina, could not have been conducted without the financial support of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, through the Advisory Commission for Archaeological Research Abroad, whose experts I would like to sincerely thank for the trust accorded to the research team. My gratitude goes also to the French Embassy in Jakarta, and especially to the Institut Français Indonésie, for its support to complete this project.
I would like to express my gratitude to the Museum Negeri Medan, whose director and staff facilitated the study of Kota Cina archaeological finds kept in its collections. 
These archaeological investigations would not have yielded the results presented in this volume without the effective and friendly aid of the numerous inhabitants from Kota Cina and students from Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Sumatra Utara (USU), and Unimed who took part in the archaeological excavations. My gratitude goes also to the technicians and the dozens of students from Universitas Jambi, USU, Unimed, and Universitas Haluoleo Kendari (Sulawesi), who participated in the documentation and analyses of the finds conducted at the Medan Archaeological Office.
I would like to thank also Ade Pristie Wisandhani and Diah Novitasari from the EFEO centre in Jakarta, as well as Nor Safinaz binti Nasir from the EFEO centre in Kuala Lumpur, for their efficient collaboration in the various digitisation works of field data during the preparation of this book.
I would like to thank all the researchers and technicians who took part in the fieldwork, sometimes in difficult conditions, and carried out or collaborated to the analyses of the finds in Medan, as well as all the external contributors, who patiently answered my requests and contributed their knowledge and expertise to this collective volume, thus enriching it with original perspectives which complement the archaeological approach.  
I would like to express my gratitude to the École française d’Extrême-Orient in Paris, especially the director, Nicolas Fiévé, who gave us all his trust through financial support in order to publish this collective volume. Many thanks also to the Service des Éditions, especially to Charlotte Schmid, Martin Ramos, and Emmanuel Siron, for their advice. Many thanks also to the EFEO centre in Jakarta: to Arlo Griffiths for his support to have this book published in Jakarta, to Diah Novitasari for her dedication in accomplishing the layout of both volumes, and to Ade Pristie Wisandhani for both covers design. My deepest appreciation also goes to the two anonymous referees who have taken the time to read the manuscript and to provide very useful comments for its improvement. 
Finally, my warmest thanks to the Association Archipel, especially to its president, Jérôme Samuel, for its financial support and for accepting this publication as Special Issue 4.

Daniel Perret

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