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Kolom Baru: “Menunggu (Lagi) Zaman Pencerahan di Indonesia?” di Historia.Com

Ada kolom baru oleh Max lane tentang hubungan Australia Indonesia di zaman perjuangan kemerdekaan di Majalah-Historia.com

See on this blog:

http://maxlaneonline.com/2009/10/29/on-joesoef-isak-2/

http://maxlaneonline.com/on-indonesian-politics/july-2008-new-book-launched-honouring-joesoef-isak/

http://maxlaneonline.com/2009/10/30/on-joesoef-isak/ 

 http://maxlaneonline.com/2010/05/07/poem-the-dried-eel-of-indonesia/

ALSO

http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/maxlaneintlasia/2006/09/with_joesoef_isak_publisher_an.html

Kolom baru di HMINEWS.com berjudul:  “Partai politik dan kemiskinan di Indonesia” 

During the 1990s an organisation called AKSI, later renamed Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) (where I was National Coordinator for much of the time) published several books and monographs on Indonesia and East Timor.  Some of these can be accessed on the web.

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Discovering Pramoedya

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By Adam Gartrell, Indonesia Correspondent

JAKARTA, July 4 AAP – One of the greatest pleasures of living in
Indonesia has been discovering the work of the country’s finest
novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer.

I’ve just finished reading Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet, a sweeping
four-book 1500-page semi-fictional epic about Indonesia’s first
tentative steps toward independence.

Set between the 1890s and 1920s in what was then the Dutch East
Indies, the books – This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations,
Footsteps and House of Glass – tell the story of Minke, a
well-educated Javanese native.

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NEW ARTICLE: “Rendra knew on whose side he stood” by Max Lane in Special Issue on Rendra in latest issue of INSIDE INDONESIA. See this issue for articles be several other authors also.

Sydney PEN’s May 2010 edition contains:

“Book bannings spur struggle for free speech in Indonesia” by Max Lane, pp. 4-5

A poem: “The dry eel of Indonesia” by Max Lane, p. 26.

Go to Sydney PEN Magazine click on May, 2010 issue to download PDF copy of magazine.

Review of UNFINISHED NATION: Indonesia before and after Suharto in MONTHLY REVIEW ZINE.