Indonesia and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. The name "Indonesia" derives from the Greek name of the "Indos" (Ἰνδός) and the word "nesos" (νῆσος), meaning "Indian islands". The name dates to the 18th century, far predating the formation of independent Indonesia. In 1850, George Windsor Earl, an English ethnologist, proposed the terms "Indunesians"—and, his preference, "Malayunesians"—for the inhabitants of the "Indian Archipelago or Malayan Archipelago". In the same publication, one of his students, James Richardson Logan, used "Indonesia" as a synonym for "Indian Archipelago". However, Dutch academics writing in East Indies publications were reluctant to use "Indonesia"; they preferred "Malay Archipelago" ("Maleische
Scylax of Caryanda the natives, which he would have accepted in good faith. Scylax's "Periplus" provided the West with its first account of the easterly people and served as a model for later Greek writers. More lastingly, it gave India its name. The people of the Indus region were referred to as "Hiduš" or "Hidush" in Persian (due to sound change of "*s" > "h" from Proto-Iranian "Sindhu"). If Scylax wrote in the Ionic dialect of Greek, which did not pronounce initial "h" sounds, he would have transformed it to "Indos" (plural: "Indoi"). Their land was characterised as "Indike" (the adjectival form, meaning