摘要
This study will shed light on the image of the Iranian leaders before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Southeast Asia in general,and in Indonesia and Malaysia in particular.Former studies have been based on outsider political and social interpretations to show the influence of post-revolutionary Iran on Malay-Indonesian social and political affairs.However,they have been more-or-less silent about the image and reception of influential Iranian figures,including Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi(d.1980)and Ruhollah Khomeini(d.1989),in Indonesia and Malaysia.Although usually little attention has been paid to Khomeini,most studies view him as an influential outsider to the Malay-Indonesian world.By the same token,the Shah of Iran has rarely been examined within the context of Khomeini’s Islamic revolution.As such,this paper fills this gap through examining original sources in order to show how these two figures were ambivalently presented in Malaysian and Indonesian contexts.
