his diligence in studying malay literature and culture in sumatra attracted another countries interest, such as malaysia who had no capable scholars at that time as newly created country, he is offered to work at the "dewan pustaka dan bahasa" ( 'language and library council') of malaysia. during his tenure, teuku iskandar asked by malaysia's linguistic council to copied the "bahasa indonesia dan pembakuannya" ( 'indonesian language and its standardization') and "kamus besar bahasa indonesia" ( 'great dictionary of indonesian language') who are developed by raja ali haji (an indonesian scholar) since 19th century and anton moeliono in 1969 to re-branded and claimed it as the "kamus dewan" ( 'dictionary of malay language') that published in 1970 to became the main linguistic reference for malay language. at the same time, he was also asked by the sultan of brunei darussalam to become a lecture at the university of brunei darussalam and he received a professorship from the university. his works are still used as the main linguistic source for standard malay until nowadays.