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NETHERLANDS PERFORMANCES OF: THEY CALL ME NYAI ONTOSOROH

The performances will be in Indonesian with English sub-titling.

Van onrechtvaardigheid naar onafhankelijkheid

In dit toneelstuk, gebaseerd op Bumi Manusia (Aarde der mensen) van Pramoedja Ananta Toer, volgen we de levens van Nyai Ontosoroh, haar dochter Annelies (een halfbloed) en haar ‘inlandse’ schoonzoon Minke. Tragische levens, want in Nederlands-Indië was sociale status afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid Europees bloed die door de aderen vloeide. Vier acteurs tonen hoe de onrechtvaardigheid van het koloniale systeem de basis legt voor het Indonesische streven naar onafhankelijkheid.

Regie: Wawan Sofwan \ Tekst: Faiza Mardzoekie\ Bahasa gesproken, Engels boventiteld

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“The crisis to come: Indonesia and the politics of 21st century underdevelopment”.

 ASIA INSTITUTE Public Lecture – Speaker: Max Lane

University of Melbourne

Thursday 15 April, 6.30pm -  Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building

Admission is free. Bookings are required. Seating is limited.

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This schedule will be updated regularly and can be accessed by clicking “Where Max is Speaking” just under the banner of this blog, on the far right.

FEBRUARY

Indonesia in 2010: what kind of neighbourhood?

18 Feb, 6.30pm  GLEEBOOKS, Glebe Point Rd., Glebe

ALL WELCOME at above time and place. You can help by RSVPing to: morgan@gleebooks.com.au

An “In Conversation” discussion flowing from Max Lane’s book: UNFINISHED NATION: Indonesia before and after Suharto, (Verso, 2008). Max Lane has just returned to Australia after being based in Singapore and Jakarta for three years.
 
Ten years after Suharto, the Indonesian government is still banning political films, such as Balibo. The police, prosecutor’s office and the courts are revealed as implicated in plots to frame rivals, including in the anti-corruption agencies, but nobody is arrested and tried. Books are still banned and even burned in public.Ministers claim that natural disasters are God’s response to moral decadence.Raising a flag in Papua still means gaol.
 
Are these anomalies in a new democratising Indonesia, ot the results of unfinished business in an unfinished nation.
 
What is going to happen politically in Australia’s largest Asian neighbour, Indonesia – the fourth most populous nation in the world.
 
The “In Panel” discussion will ne started off by an exchange between author, Max Lane, and the University of Sydney’s professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Dr Adrian Vickers

APRIL

The crisis to come: Indonesia and the politics of 21st century underdevelopment

ASIA INSTITUTE Public Lecture, University of Melbourne

15 April, Thursday 6.30pm

This schedule will be updated regularly and can be accessed by clicking “Where Max is Speaking” just under the banner of this blog, on the far right.

FEBRUARY

Indonesia in 2010: what kind of neighbourhood?

18 Feb, 6.30pm  GLEEBOOKS, Glebe Point Rd., Glebe

ALL WELCOME at above time and place. You can help by RSVPing to: morgan@gleebooks.com.au

An “In Conversation” discussion flowing from Max Lane’s book: UNFINISHED NATION: Indonesia before and after Suharto, (Verso, 2008). Max Lane has just returned to Australia after being based in Singapore and Jakarta for three years.
 
Ten years after Suharto, the Indonesian government is still banning political films, such as Balibo. The police, prosecutor’s office and the courts are revealed as implicated in plots to frame rivals, including in the anti-corruption agencies, but nobody is arrested and tried. Books are still banned and even burned in public.Ministers claim that natural disasters are God’s response to moral decadence.Raising a flag in Papua still means gaol.
 
Are these anomalies in a new democratising Indonesia, ot the results of unfinished business in an unfinished nation.
 
What is going to happen politically in Australia’s largest Asian neighbour, Indonesia – the fourth most populous nation in the world.
 
The “In Panel” discussion will ne started off by an exchange between author, Max Lane, and the University of Sydney’s professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Dr Adrian Vickers

APRIL

The crisis to come: Indonesia and the politics of 21st century underdevelopment

ASIA INSTITUTE Public Lecture, University of Melbourne

15 April, Thursday 6.30pm

The Australian newspaper has carried a report on the Singapore MAX LANE. ”Johari likens the sombre tones of his music to the suffering and “dark history” of Pramoedya and his works”. It is in its January 27 issue and the article is entitled “New act plays to the Max“.

For more on the background of Singapore’s music pesona “Max Lane” and his music: 

“About The Mim Project

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It is new and unfamiliar to me too but check out the website http://www.myspace.com/uppmaxlane 

It is a site which contains information about and the music of the band “MAX LANE”.

The piece “Pembukaan” uses excerpts from a speech from Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Public forum:

Indonesia, the new Pacific solution? Refugee rights and social justice in the Asia Pacific

 Date: Tuesday, 08 December 2009 Time: 18:00 – 20:00

A discussion forum with Pamela Curr and Setyo Budi Presented by Indonesia Solidarity Forum and the University of Melbourne Indonesian program

Pamela Curr – Long term refugee rights activist and the Campaign Coordinator at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre will be speaking on “Australia: externalising borders and aping the Gaddafi/ Berlusconi agreement. Human rights trampled by political skulduggery. Has Australia lost the plot? What can we do?”

Setyo Budi – Indonesia solidarity activist and presenter on the Asia Pacific Currents show on Radio 3CR will speak on “Indonesian attitudes towards their government’s refugee policy. Read more…

Two very useful sites for video materials with a social justice and environmental theme are:

http://www.engagemedia.org/ and http://directactionfilms.com/

The first event at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival that I was scheduled to speak at was the Tribute to Rendra, being held in the evening of the first day, immediately after the opening ceremony. Rendra, one of Indonesia’s most interesting, active, prolific and political playwrites and poets, had died a few weeks earlier at age 72.

I was asked to speak for just seven minutes or so. I had met earlier with the organisers of the event and also asked them to arrange to use a tape recording I had of one of  pre=”of “>Rendra’s most dramatic poetry readings back in 1978. It was at the open air theatre in the Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) at the Jakarta Arts Centre, which could seat (and stand) a few thousand people. It is gone now, replaced by an enclosed theatre that seats about 400 hundred. In 1978 Rendra was in the vanguard of protest against social injustice and military dictatatorship. He was arrested the day after that 1978 poetry reading and spent almost a year in jail. Besides myself, and the tape recording (which had been made by Professor Doug Miles, an Australian anthropologist, who had been in the audience in 1978), there were to be other speakers and performers.

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