 Although Buah Rindu was published in 1941 , four years after Amir 's debut collection Nyanyi Sunyi , general consensus is that its poems are less recent . The poems in Buah Rindu date to the period between 1928 and 1935 , Amir 's first years in Java ; the collection gives the two years , as well the location of writing as Jakarta – Solo ( Surakarta ) – Jakarta . The dates of the poems themselves are unclear . None of Amir 's works are dated , meaning a definite date is impossible to establish . There are several hypotheses . Nh . Dini , in her biography of Amir , suggests that some , such as " Tinggallah " , were written not long after he boarded the Plancus , on his way to Java . Anthony Johns of Australia National University suggests that the poems are arranged chronologically , pointing to the increasing maturity Amir shows as a writer while the poems develop . 
