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.
Discovering Pramoedya
POSTCARD
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.
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.
Below is the reference to the latest review of UNFINISHED NATION: Indonesia before and after Suharto
Book review: Max Lane Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto, Verso: London 2008; 288 pp.: 9781844672370, £16.99 (pbk)
by Nathaniel Mehr
in
Capital & Class 2010, 34: pp 281-283.
Also:
FOR A BRIEF COMMENT on THE ECONOMIST website see: http://www.economist.com/user/KatherineMurray/comments
Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After SuhartoReviewed by Ed Walsh of Irish Socialist Network - Published: May 20th, 2010 Click HERE for Review.
(Remembering a story from the experiences of Joesoef Isak from 1966 or 1967.)
The dried eel of Indonesia.
The humidity was from sweat and not the air. The sad singing was the whimpers as they dabbed alcohol on the wounds. The music was the brushing of bodies and clothes against each other in the tiny room. The percussion introduced pause was the clang of an opening gate. The crescendo followed the approach of booted footsteps. It ended as another human being was thrown to the floor. The notes were the scores left by the spikes of the dried eel across his back. Another was taken. Do not fear the pain, one said, you do not die, you do come back. For most, yes, it was true. But not for the other one million.
Joesoef signing the book dedicated to him for Faiza Mardzoeki.
Joesoef Isak passed away 15 August, 2009. RIP
Max Lane
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