Muhlis Hadrawi

Muhlis Hadrawi lecturers in philology, literature and Bugis language at Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia. He obtained his MA research degree in philology in 2005 from Universitas Indonesia and his PhD in 2015 from Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu (ATMA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. His PhD research was a philological and historical study of the arrival and integration of Malays in South Sulawesi between the 16th and 17th centuries. He has written widely on various aspects of Bugis literature. His last book, Assikalaibineng kitab persetubuhan Bugis, (first published in 2008 and subsequently republished four times), had sold over 12,000 copies by 2010 and became a best-seller at Gramedia.